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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009 AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY www.smu.edu/swcenter The Sunbelt, a region born of recent history, has been steadily drawing Americans from older cities to Editor: Andrea Boardman, Assistant Editor: Ruth Ann Elmore burgeoning metropolitan centers across the southwest since World War II. Warmer temperatures and air conditioning only begin to tell the story. This conference will explore the political, economic, and social transformations that have been making the Sunbelt into a unifi ed region rivaling traditional centers of Volume 10, No. 1 N E W S L E T T E R Fall 2008 power in the East. From the Associate Director: Clements, benefactor of the Clements Center, played an important part. He won the Governorship in 1978, the fi rst Republican Historians Michelle Nickerson, University of Texas at Dallas, and Darren Dochuk, Purdue University, This fall, much of the to win that offi ce in Texas since Reconstruction. As one of the have gathered an interdisciplinary group of scholars with topics that promise to deepen, complicate and nation’s attention will focus on Governor’s friends later put it, “He was the right candidate to be broaden how we understand the Sunbelt. the U.S. Presidential election. on the cutting edge of history. It was going to happen sooner or Several aspects of the contest later; this [Republican ascendancy] was happening all over the Please see the Clements Center’s Web site for details and updates: http://smu.edu/swcenter/ strike observers as particularly South.” During the campaign, Bill and his wife Rita seemed to SunbeltRising.htm noteworthy, including a fi rst- time understand these changes and worked hard to capitalize on them. African American candidate They visited more than 200 rural counties. They appointed county running under the banner of a campaign chairmen in 244 of 254 counties – dozens of which major political party. American had not had enough Republicans to even hold a primary during voters will also decide whether the the preceding spring. Governor Clements’ television campaign Republican bloc, that Republican emphasized he was a man of the people who pulled himself up strategist Kevin Phillips once by his bootstraps and a candidate who knew energy – one of the described as a new hegemony in major issues of the day. Clements was, after all, an oil man. He The Clements Center’s newsletter is published semi-annually at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters. For an electronic national politics, will hold. Should Barack Obama win, pundits also was a person who knew his way around Washington, D.C., version of this newsletter or for more information about the Clements Center’s grants, fellowships, publications and programs, might very well mark the 2008 election as one denoting a sea having served as manager of the Department of the Defense please visit our Web site at http://smu.edu/swcenter/index.asp or contact us at (214) 768-3684 or [email protected]. change in American politics. It will, of course, not be the fi rst. during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. He also received Throughout American history, one can identify particular help from nationally-known Republicans. Former President Ford Southern Methodist University elections which reveal, and symbolize, signifi cant changes in the and former California Governor Ronald Reagan campaigned for William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies political landscape. This year’s Clements Center symposium, Clements in Houston and Dallas. And the Clements campaign Dallas Hall, Room 356 3225 University Ave. “Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region in the understood the growing importance of a Christian voting bloc in PO Box 750176 American South and Southwest” examines the shift which, about the days before the “Moral Majority” emerged in the 1980s. Dallas, TX 75275-0176 forty years ago, united conservatives in the South and Southwest. On election day the Clements’ supporters worked the This, in turn, led to the Republican Party ascendancy over the phones, reaching 20% of all voters. One third of the voters made Democrats, particularly in the newly coined “Sunbelt” region. up their minds during the last week and 15 percent not until (For more information on this event see p.16.) election day, so this last minute effort was particularly important. Texas, of course, had a role in this story and Governor Bill So close was Clements’ contest with Democratic candidate John Hill, that Bill and Rita went to sleep that night, uncertain of the outcome. Although the next day’s Amarillo Globe-News CONTENTS: mistakenly published a headline declaring Hill the victor, a 2 Awards & Recognition recount revealed that Clements won the race by a margin of 16,909 votes out of 2.2 million cast. “My election marks a new 3 Introducing the 2008-09 Clements Center Fellows day for Texas,” Clements said at the time, “We literally have 5 News from Past Fellows turned a page in history, and the political scene will never be the 7 Bill Clements Dissertation Fellowship & Ph.D. Updates same.” 9 Publication News Historian Kenneth Bridges agrees that this 1978 election 10 DeGolyer Library: “Emily’s Sisters” “saw the twilight of the age of unquestioned Democratic superiority” in Texas. Republicans demonstrated they could win 14 Clements Center–DeGolyer Travel Research Grants statewide elections and attract Democrats who wanted a more 14 Fall Events Calendar conservative organization. On the other hand, Bridge argues 16 Spring Symposium: “Sunbelt Rising: The Politics that Texas politics changed very little. By the early twenty-fi rst of Space, Place, and Region in the American South and century, Texas was still a state dominated by one political party. Southwest” The difference was simply in “which party label that conservative

CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 1 party has chosen to wear…[A] transformation the ways we bring our audiences perspective and began from conservative Democratic domination to understanding of the Southwest. Please join us if you conservative Republican domination of the state.” The can! ~ Sherry L. Smith, Associate Director David Weber spent the 2007-08 academic year as the objects found in well-to-do colonial future? Only one thing is clear – political shifts and Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Senior Fellow at homes arrived from throughout the transformations are inevitable and as Bridges put it, it is Yale, where he completed work on a book to be called: Spanish Empire. Unlike the colorless “[t]he voters [who] will ultimately determine the future For more information on Governor Clements’s career “Fiasco: George Clinton Gardner’s Correspondence environments found in Hollywood fi lms, course of politics in the Lone Star State.” and the 1978 Texas Governor’s race see Carolyn Barta’s from the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey, 1849-1854.” colonial buildings were alive with bright The confl uence between past and present in Bill Clements: Texian to his Toenails (Austin: Eakin The book contains 175 letters that he and his co-editor, colors, rich textures, and an array of politics, as refl ected in the current election and the Press, 1996) and Kenneth Bridges’ Twilight of the Texas Jane Lenz Elder, have introduced and annotated. interesting items. historical scholarship the Clements Center supports Democrats: The 1978 Governor’s Race (College Station: His talk will explain the signifi cance of Gardner’s through symposiums and fellowships, is just one of Texas A & M Press, 2008). correspondence and explain why editing is a risky DR. KELLY DONAHUE-WALLACE business for historians in the academy. is chair of the Department of Art

Education and Art History in the A Spaniard and his College of Visual Arts and Design Mexican Indian Wife and AWARDS & RECOGNITION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 at the University of North Texas. She their Child, from a series on mixed race marriages William P. Clements Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book received her Ph.D. in art history from the in Mexico (oil on canvas) The Clements Center welcomes CORDELIA CHÁVEZ Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American University of New Mexico in 2000. Dr. by Miguel Cabrera on Southwestern America: (1695-1768) © Museo de CANDELARIA as SMU’s new Dean of Dedman College of Southwest,” completed and submitted the manuscript Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Donahue-Wallace teaches undergraduate America, Madrid, Spain/ Humanities and Sciences. Previously she was at Arizona based on participants’ essays to SAR Press at the School Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by and graduate courses in Latin American The Bridgeman Art State University serving as the Regents Professor in for Advanced Research on the Human Experience, Santa art, the history of prints, and European Library. early modern art. Her research addresses the Department of English and the Department of Fe, NM. JULIANA BARR, Assistant Professor Transborder Chicano/o and Latina/o Studies. At ASU of History, University of Florida, the history of prints in eighteenth-century Mexico City she also was the founding associate dean of the Offi ce The Clements Center welcomes BENJAMIN H. JOHNSON Gainesville. and the function of prints in the colonial context. of Strategic Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts and as Associate Director of the Clements Center. Ben is an st Sciences. Dean Candelaria joined SMU on July 1 . Associate Professor of History and a specialist in both “Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 borderlands and environmental history. He collaborated which Indians were the dominant power Lecture & Book Signing DAVID WEBER, Clements Center Director and Dedman with photographer Jeffrey Gusky on Bordertown:The and Europeans were the ones forced to “Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the Professor of History, received the Lon Tinkle Award Odyssey of An American Place (2008) and is the author accommodate, resist, and persevere. She American West” from the Texas Institute of Letters in April. The award of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and demonstrates that between the 1690s recognizes excellence sustained throughout a career. Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans and 1780s, Indian peoples, including the DEANNE STILLMAN, author and journalist The Texas Institute of Letters was founded in 1936 (2003). Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, 6:00 p.m. Reception to stimulate interest in Texas letters and to recognize Wichitas, and Comanches, formed relationships with 6:30 p.m. Lecture & Book Signing distinctive literary achievement. This fall David is back Ben organized the 2006-7 Clements Center Symposium, Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of Stanley Marcus Reading Room, DeGolyer Library at SMU teaching and leading the Clements Center after “Bridging National Borders in North America,” with imperial control.” 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. a year’s sabbatical at Yale University’s Lamar Center former Clements Center Fellow Andrew Graybill, which for the Study of Frontiers and Borders where he was resulted in a volume of essays to be published by Duke McCord Auditorium, 3rd Floor Dallas Hall, There is no charge, but please make a reservation by in residence as a Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke University Press. And, along with former Clements 3225 University Boulevard, SMU calling 214-768-3684 or access online reservation, Senior Fellow. Publication news: Yale University Press Center Fellow Pekka Hämäläinen, Ben is in the 6:00 p.m. Reception parking information and directions at http://smu.edu/ will publish his Spanish Frontier in North America: The process of editing Major Problems in North American 6:30 p.m. Award Ceremony, lecture and book signing swcenter/Mustang.htm Brief Edition in January 2009. See the Events Calendar Borderlands History. A native of Houston, Ben received for his Brown Bag on Oct. 15. his B.A. from Carleton College and his Ph.D. from There is no charge, but please make a reservation by When Deanne Stillman learned that

Yale University. He arrived at SMU in the fall of 2002, calling 214-768-3684 or access online reservation, thirty-four wild horses had been gunned The Clements Center is proud to report that Professor of after a postdoc at Caltech and teaching for a year at the parking information and directions at http://smu.edu/ down outside Reno at Christmas time in History SHERRY SMITH, who is also Associate Director University of Texas at San Antonio. Ben has received swcenter/Barr.htm 1998, she felt compelled to know more. of the Clements Center, will be inducted as President fellowships from the Beinecke Library, the Mellon In her new book, Ms. Stillman spans the of the Western History Association for 2009-2010 at Foundation, the Marshall Foundation, the American WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 centuries of the presence of mustangs in the national meeting in Salt Lake City in October. In Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library, North America, from the ways they had the spring Sherry was one of three professors given Clements Center Brown Bag Lecture and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He been used over time by conquistadors, the title of “University Distinguished Professor,” an 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. is currently at work on a history of the Progressive-Era indigenous peoples, cattle drivers and award created in 1982 by SMU’s Board of Trustees Texana Room, DeGolyer Library environmental politics for Yale University Press. settlers until the time they were no longer to honor outstanding faculty members who meet the 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. needed. Government laws offered some highest standards of academic achievement. University Congratulations to JOHN CHÁVEZ, professor of Mexican protection, but then those ended. Her talk Distinguished Professors are appointed in perpetuity and A caballo entre dos mundos: Material Culture in American and U.S. Southwest history and member of includes pictures, an account of the Battle of the Little receive cash awards. In addition to teaching and serving Spanish Colonial Texas the Center’s Executive Board. Cambridge University Bighorn and its famous equine survivor, and, on this ten- as the Graduate Student adviser, Sherry helps to lead the Press accepted his manuscript, “Beyond Empires: year anniversary of the Reno massacre, an introduction Clements Center, and is responsible for overseeing the This lecture employs wills, inventories, and other Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World,” and to Bugz, the silent witness who survived the Reno Center’s symposium series. This summer she and Brian documents to examine the material culture of Spanish will publish the book simultaneously in hardback and massacre. Frehner (Oklahoma State University), co-organizers paperback for immediate classroom use. colonial Texas. From red silk bedclothes to painted and co-editors of last spring’s symposium, “Indians & screens bearing images of gallivanting lovers, the

2 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 15 TRAVEL RESEARCH GRANTS TO USE DEGOLYER COLLECTIONS INTRODUCING THE 2008-2009 BILL AND RITA CLEMENTS RESEARCH FELLOWS Throughout the year the Clements Center teams up with DeGolyer Library to offer travel research grants FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHWESTERN AMERICA AND to scholars from beyond the north Texas area who are working on any aspect of the Southwestern and borderlands THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION FELLOW IN TEXAS HISTORY experience. These $600 a week grants are awarded for one to four weeks to help to defray costs of travel, lodging, and research materials. In addition to our usual grants, we are pleased that the James Butler Bonham Chapter of Research fellowships are at the core of the Clements prison system placed in charge also ran an internal the Daughters of the Texas Republic, through the Clements Center, offers an annual research grant of $500 for a Center mission. Each one-year fellow receives a prison economy in which money, food, human beings, scholar whose work at the DeGolyer Library will advance our understanding of the history of Texas. This summer $39,000 stipend, a $3,000 research fund, and, for those reputations, favors, and sex all became commodities Marion Castleberry, Professor and Director of Graduate Theater Studies, Baylor University, received a Clements- with a completed manuscript, a workshop in which to be bought and sold. In his manuscript, based on DeGolyer and a Bonham Chapter grant to work in the Horton Foote Collection on a biography of this famous Texas two top scholars in the subject fi eld spend an afternoon newly released court records and oral histories that author and playwright. In the spring, Mark Finlay, Professor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University, with the fellow and several SMU and local scholars Rob conducted with prisoners, prison administrators, received a Clements-DeGolyer grant to focus on materials from the International Rubber Company in Mexico for and graduate students to engage in a deep critique of litigators, and legislators, his work will show how his book, Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security. In March, George W. the manuscript. “It’s a dream come true,” said a recent the Texas prison system managed to maintain its high Cox, Emeritus Professor of Biology, San Diego State University, used his grant to research the years of the Mexican fellow. The one-year or one-semester fellowships external reputation for so long in the face of the internal Revolution in the borderlands to contextualize a collection of letters written by William B. Cox, who had various are open to junior or senior scholars in any fi eld of the reality and how that reputation collapsed when inmates, business interests there at that time. humanities or social sciences working on the American inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, revolted. Rob Southwest or the U.S.-Mexico borderlands who want will present a public Brown Bag lecture on March 18, NEW! The New Ruth P. Morgan Fellowships: To encourage and support the use of the resources time to bring book-length manuscripts to completion. 2009. of the Archives of Women of the Southwest and the DeGolyer Library, Dr. Ruth P. Morgan, provost For 2009-2010 fellowships, the application deadline is emerita at SMU, has created an endowment which will provide support for advanced scholars who January 20, 2009 (http://smu.edu/swcenter/announce. RAPHAEL B. FOLSOM, is an are working on projects related to women in the Southwest and to women in politics. The grants shall htm). assistant professor of history at be known as the Ruth P. Morgan Fellowships and will be awarded by the DeGolyer Library and the the University of Oklahoma. He Clements Center for Southwest Studies. The fi rst Morgan Fellowships will be offered in 2008-2009. To ROBERT T. CHASE, received his Ph.D. received his Ph.D. from Yale in apply, please visit http://smu.edu/swcenter/clemdeg.htm. from the University of Maryland, the winter of 2007. This year he College Park. His primary area of will be completing his manuscript, specialization is in social movements, “This Weeping Land: The Making, racial politics, and political culture. As Destruction, and Rebirth of the a Clements Center Fellow, he will be Yaqui Mission Towns, 1533- FALL 2008 EVENTS CALENDAR completing his manuscript on “Civil 1810.” Raphael is exploring Rights on the Cellblock: Race, Reform the complex relationship between Yaqui Indians and obscures the long and complicated history of Yaqui Fr. Ignacio Tirsch, S.J., A and Punishment in Texas Prisons and invading Spanish imperial forces in colonial Mexico. In California Indian woman carrying collaboration with the Spanish empire. the Nation, 1945-1990.” His project the face of Spanish conquest, his monograph examines green seed pulp, and a California begins in 1948 when Texas embarked how Yaquis managed to establish a sphere of cultural majordomo like those who came Yaqui ties with the Spanish Empire were deep, complex, from Spain. Codex Pictoreus on the nation’s most ambitious reform program to autonomy in the colonial northwest via a mix of Mexicanus (Tirsch Codex) Catalog contentious, and creative. This talk will discuss the replace its notorious plantation/prison farm system with political shrewdness and violence. The Yaqui Indians No. 0033R. National Library of the establishment of these ties, their development in the Czech Republic. an effi cient, business-oriented agricultural enterprise of Sonora have long been known for the ferocity of mid-colonial period, and their violent transformation system. When this new system was fully operational their struggle with the Mexican State in the late 19th under Bourbon rule. Drawing on chronicle histories, in the 1960s, Texas garnered plaudits as a pioneering, and early 20th centuries, as successive governments Jesuit letters, demographic data and newly discovered modern, effi cient, and business oriented Sun Belt state. tried to destroy them and take their land. From this WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 documents written by the Yaquis, Raphael will discuss The result was an agri-business operation that was so struggle emerged a persistent myth of Yaqui fi erceness, the development of this project and possible avenues of successful that state leaders and penologists could claim separateness, and cultural independence. There is a Clements Center Brown Bag Lecture further research and argumentation. 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. that they had successfully modernized the South and kernel of truth to this mythology, but it obscures the Texana Room, DeGolyer Library WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 vanquished the ghosts of their past. Gone were the long and complicated history of Yaqui collaboration prison’s public images of slavery, convict leasing, the with the Spanish empire. Yaqui ties with the Spanish 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. Clements Center Brown Bag Lecture lash and bat, “sexual perversions,” and degradation. empire were deep, complex, contentious, and creative. 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. Rather than accept the albatross of their slave heritage Raphael will give a Brown Bag lecture on his research This Weeping Land: The Making, Destruction, and Texana Room, DeGolyer Library and a prison system that served as a living symbol on September 17th (see page 15 for details). Rebirth of the Yaqui Mission Towns, 1533-1810 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. of southern “backwardness,” Texans created instead a prison where such “bottom line” and business-like At the April meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference The Risky Business of Editing: RAPHAEL FOLSOM, Clements Center Fellow for the results as production, cost effi ciency, and external on Latin American Studies, Raphael was on a panel Letters from the U.S.-Mexico Study of Southwestern America 2008-09 images of order allowed the state to stake a claim to organized by SMU Professor of History PETER Boundary Survey, 1849-1854 modernity. But this reputation of competence and BAKEWELL, “New Scholarship on Jesuit and Franciscan The Yaqui Indians of Sonora have long been known effi ciency obfuscated the reality of a brutal system of Missions in Colonial Latin America.” Raphael’s paper for the ferocity of their struggle with the Mexican state Sketch and writing from George Clinton internal prison management in which inmates acted as was: “‘They Never Lay Down Their Arms—Not Even in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as successive Gardner’s personal letters courtesy of the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist guards, employing coercive means to maintain control at Mass’: Yaqui Perspectives on the Insurrection of governments tried to destroy them and take their land. University, Dallas, Texas. over the prisoner population. The inmates whom the 1740.” Other panelists included: Clements Center From this struggle emerged a persistent myth of Yaqui fi erceness, separateness, and cultural independence. DAVID J. WEBER, Dedman Professor of History and There is a kernel of truth to this mythology, but it Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU.

14 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 3 Also worth the reader’s attention is Driftwood, by Mrs. from Leading Writers and Prominent Dissertation Fellow JOSÉ GABRIEL MARTÍNEZ SERNA, Borderlands, 1763-1825,” which he plans to complete Lou Singletary-Bedford, and Driftings, by Mrs. May Characters of Texas, being a Texas “Institutionalizing the Jesuit Frontier: Seminaries, in this fellowship year. This manuscript offers a new Bedford-Eagan, published together in Dallas in 1893. Contribution to the World’s Industrial Colleges, and Missions of the Society of Jesus in perspective on the history of imperial and national Born in Kentucky, Lou Singletary married John Joseph Exposition at New Orleans, La., 1884- Northern New Spain, 1594-1767”; DAVID REX GALINDO rivalries in North America. His premise is to examine Bedford in 1857. Their daughter, May, was born a year 5 (New Orleans: J.S. Rivers, 1885), (SMU doctoral student), “The Important Business of two major tendencies—adventurism and intrigue— later, in Llano County, Texas. By 1878, the family was containing not only verse by numerous Their Salvation: Franciscan Missions among Christians toward understanding British and U.S. expansion living in Milton, Florida, where Lou Bedford and her Texas writers, but some extraordinary in 18th-Century New Spain,” and ANDREA CAMPETELLA aimed at Spanish colonial frontiers of the Mississippi husband edited and published the local newspaper. Her color lithographs of scenes at the New (Rutgers University), “‘Missions in the Desert’: Indians, Valley, the Gulf Coast region, and Texas. His book is fi rst book, A Vision and Other Poems, was published in Orleans Industrial Exposition. The state, Jesuits, and Spaniards in the Pampas of Buenos Aires, ambitious in scope. It extends from the end of the Seven Cincinnati and London in 1881. May Bedford married it appears, was promoting its literary 1739-1752.” The commentator was former Clements Years War, through the emergence of the United States John Eagan in 1882. Tragically, May Bedford Eagan as well as its industrial and agricultural Center Fellow CYNTHIA RADDING (University of New as an imperial republic, to the crisis of the Spanish died in Florida in August, 1883. Lou Bedford’s Gathered productions. Mexico, now at the University of North Carolina). empire and the aftermath of Mexican independence in Leaves was published in Dallas in 1883, and by 1884 1821. David’s fi rst book, Inheritance and Family Life she was living in the city, where she apparently wrote In addition to individual volumes and anthologies, MIGUEL ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZ QUIROGA will in Colonial New York City, won the 1992 Hendricks for various newspapers. The present volume contains DeGolyer also has numerous periodicals associated with join the Clements Center as a fellow in Award for the best manuscript on the Dutch colonial sketches and poems by mother and daughter. women. One of the best is The Hesperian, edited by the spring semester. He is a Professor experience in North America. More recently, he Mrs. F. H. Day (San Francisco, March 1859-April 1863). of History at the Universidad Autónoma achieved recognition in the fi eld of Southwestern Martha Elizabeth Hotchkiss Whitten (b. 1842) was a According to James D. Hart, the Hesperian was “a de Nuevo León in Monterrey, Mexico. and borderlands history. His article, “José Bernardo prolifi c if not always successful Texas poet. Appearing journal of literature and art for women,” initially semi- Miguel received his B.A. in history Gutiérrez de Lara: Caudillo of the Mexican Republic in in Author’s Edition of Texas Garlands (Austin, 1887) monthly, and later monthly. It aimed to bring culture from the University of Houston and his Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2002), won is her “Beautiful in Death. In Memory of Miss Bettie to ladies by discussing literary classics, by providing M.A. in Latin American history from the the 2003 Bolton-Kinnaird Award of the Western History Costley and Miss Griffi th, who were drowned in the information about niceties of housekeeping, and through Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Association for best article of the year in Spanish Colorado River while bathing, May, 1867,” a poem that the printing of colored fashion plates, its main attraction. Mexico. He has co-authored two books Borderlands history. In 2009, the Western Historical compares favorably with Emmeline Grangerford’s “Ode Contributors included ‘Caxton’ (W.H. Rhodes), J.S. and co-edited two others on the border Quarterly will publish Narrett’s article, “Liberation to Stephen Dowling Bots” in Mark Twain’s Adventures Hittell, Frank Soule, and “Yellow Bird’ (John Rollin region. His latest effort has been as co-editor, with and Conquest: John Hamilton Robinson and U.S. of Huckleberry Finn. Also in the graveyard school is Ridge).” Mrs. Day, founder and editor, employed such SMU Ph.D. student TIMOTHY BOWMAN, of a new edition Adventurism toward Mexico, 1806-1819.” In October, Mollie Spencer, author of Mollie Spencer’s Poems artists as the Nahl brothers and A. J. Grayson, often of Melinda Rankin’s Twenty Years Among the Mexicans: David will present a paper, “British Imperial Visions: (Sherman, Tex., 1897), the fi rst book of poetry printed referred to as the Audubon of the West. Of Mrs. Day, Narrative of Missionary Labor, which will be published West Florida and Spanish Louisiana” at the Southern in Sherman, Texas. About the author, little is known at we know but little, though from her forum, “Editor’s this fall in the Library of Texas Series, a collaborative Conference of British Studies. The commentator is present. Judging from the contents of this volume, she Table,” she seems to have had a keen mind, lively wit, project of the Clements Center and DeGolyer Library. Eligah Gould, a major scholar in the fi eld. David will tended to specialize in obituary verse, memorializing and interest in furthering women’s rights. In addition to During his residence, Miguel will be completing his give a Brown Bag lecture on his work over 40 individuals, “In Memory of Miss Jennie Peire,” the patterns and costumes were editorial stands against manuscript on “Confl ict and Commonality in the next spring, on February 18, 2009. “In Memory of Grandpa Carson,” “In Memory of capital punishment and slavery. Texas-Mexico Border Region, 1830-1880.” This study Willie,” “In Memory of G. Ackerson,” etc., etc. focuses on a particularly violent period before and after JOHN W. WEBER III is this year’s recipient Half a continent away was The Hallequah (Grand the establishment of the border, a period characterized of the Summerlee Fellowship in Texas Gift books and anthologies were especially important in River, Indian Territory: Hallaquah Society, Wyandotte by fi libustering, cattle rustling, Indian depredations, History. He received his Ph.D. from the gathering poems that were fi rst published in newspapers Mission, 1880). This ephemeral periodical was edited invasions and wars. However, in spite of the violence, College of William and Mary in 2008 and periodicals. Samuel Dixon’s, The Poets and Poetry by three women, Ida Johnson, Lula Walker, and Arizona people of the border region, both Anglos and Mexicans, where he specialized in U.S. History, La- of Texas. Biographical Sketches of the Poets of Texas, Jackson, all Quaker missionaries. They set their own developed a commonality of interests which led to bor History, and Modern Latin American with Selections from Their Writings, Containing Reviews type, sent to them courtesy of Susan Longstreth, a various forms of cooperation in areas such as commerce, History. He will spend his fellowship both Personal and Critical (Austin, 1885) is invaluable Friend in Philadelphia, and published this little journal labor and religion. Most of these relations and year completing his manuscript for pub- as a source of biographical and bibliographical with news of the school (a literary society met once a interactions, which tended to unite people, were driven lication: “The Shadow of the Revolution: information on scores of nineteenth-century poets, week) and contributions from students, many of them by market forces. An alternative history of the border South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, male and female. According to the preface, written Native American children. In vol. 1, no. 4-5 (March & region begins to emerge when the actions of merchants, and the Evolution of Modern American in 1878 by William Carey Crane, professor at Baylor April 1880) is a poem “composed for and read at the migrant laborers and missionaries become the object of Labor Relations.” His work examines the creation and University, “Texas is the land of poetry. The Milton, or funeral of Nancy Johnson,” a student at the school who study. Miguel will give a Brown Bag Lecture about his evolution of the agricultural economy and labor relations Tennyson, or Bryant, or Longfellow, or Poe, may not had died at age 15. According to the obituary, Nancy had work on January 28, 2009. of South Texas from the late 19th century to the 1960s. yet have appeared, but poetry is embedded in the great recited poetry at a meeting of the literary society only The changing demographic reality of Mexico, with mas- heart of the people; it is taught in paradisic landscapes, two weeks before her death. DeGolyer’s copy is the only DAVID E. NARRETT received his Ph.D. sive population shifts northward during the last quarter in the mountain heights, in purling streams of diamond one known. at Cornell University in 1981. He is of the Nineteenth Century, caused massive emigration purity, in dashing rivers springing from rocky beds, in Associate Professor of History at the to the United States once the violence of the Mexican the balmy fragrance of ten thousand fl owers, in the wild As this small sampling indicates, women University of Texas at Arlington, where Revolution erupted after 1910. Hundreds of thousands revellings of myriad vines, in the somber density of poets are well represented at DeGolyer he began teaching in 1984. David’s fl ed north of the border, most of them traveling to South wild tanglewoods, in the forest of live oaks and water Library, from St. Louis to San Francisco, research, which has a broad geographic Texas. This migration wave out of Mexico met another oaks, of pine and cypress, and in all the luxuriances and from Oregon to New Orleans, from and chronological range, is the basis group of migrants traveling from the Southeast and Mid- abundance of semi-tropical and super-oriental clime.” epics to epigrams. For anyone interested of his book manuscript, “Frontiers of west who sought to purchase farm land in South Texas Perhaps we should allow for poetic license! in literary and social history, their work Adventurism and Intrigue: The West as the region underwent a transition from ranching to deserves further study. Ellen Atherton, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas-Mexican agriculture. A new regime of labor and racial relations Also essential is Ella Hutchens Sydnor, Gems from a Walls of Corn (Hiawatha, Kansas, 1894) Texas Quarry: or, Literary Offerings by and Selections is one of many, ripe for the harvest.

4 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 13 Perhaps the most well-known woman writer in with much in the allegorical mode, but perhaps her best California is Ina Donna Coolbrith (1842-1928), work is typifi ed by poems in a plain-spoken voice, such emerged from these simultaneous migrations, built on a went national during the era of the Bracero Program a prominent fi gure in the San Francisco literary as “Do Not Call Me Grandma.” system of social and residential segregation, continued from 1942-1964. Originally meant to be an emergency community. She was a friend of Samuel Clemens, Bret migration from Mexico, and seasonal immobilization of contract labor program between the United and Mexico Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, Joaquin Miller, and Augusta Joyce Crocheron was nearly two years old workers. While this system never stopped the mobility during World War II, it morphed into a method by which Ansel Adams, and contributed articles to the infl uential when her convert parents, Caroline and John Joyce, sold of the Mexican and Mexican American populations of growers could replicate the labor market conditions of Overland Monthly. In 1873 Ina became librarian at all they owned and sailed from New York to California South Texas, it did allow the region to continue pay- South Texas, with basic rights of choice, mobility, and the Oakland Free Library and in 1915 she was named with Samuel Brannan’s expedition in 1846. After an ing the lowest wages in the nation even as production citizenship disregarded in favor of cheap and easily the fi rst poet laureate of California. Our copy of the unbearable six-month voyage, the family arrived in and profi ts soared. Agricultural interests in the rest of exploitable foreign labor. Throughout the Twentieth author’s fi rst book, A Perfect Day and Other Poems what is now San Francisco only to fi nd desolate living the country were not long in taking notice, and began Century, in other words, South Texas has not been a pe- (San Francisco, 1881), is inscribed by Coolbrith to Miss conditions in a land at war with Mexico. The 1849 recruiting workers from South Texas by the thousands ripheral, backward region with little importance for the M.E. Hoyt “with the affectionate regards of her old-time gold rush brought prosperity to the area but also the during the Nineteen Twenties after immigration from rest of the nation. Instead, the rest of the nation has fol- pupil. Los Angeles, August 11, 1882.” alcohol that ruined John and, ultimately, the marriage. Europe had slowed down following the passage of lowed in the footsteps of South Texas. John will present Caroline later remarried, and in 1867 the family settled restrictive immigration legislation in 1917, 1921, and his work at a Brown Bag Lecture on April 15, 2009. Mrs. E. P. Thorndyke relied on permanently in Utah. In 1870, Augusta married George 1924. The South Texas model of labor relations then voices from the beyond in Astrea, or W. Crocheron as a plural wife and together they had Goddess of Justice (San Francisco: three sons and two daughters. As a writer she expressed Amanda M. Slocum, book and job herself in both poetry and prose, contributing regularly NEWS FROM CLEMENTS CENTER FELLOWS, 1996 TO PRESENT printer, 1881), a book of poems (and to Mormon journals and winning awards for two of her a few short prose pieces) from a short stories. In 1880 she accepted the advice and aid of JULIANA BARR (1999-2000), was promoted to Associate SHERRY SMITH, to co-edit the volume of essays produced California spiritualist, with a number friends such as Emmeline B. Wells and published her Professor of History at the University of Florida at by the Center’s symposium held last April 2008, of them transmitted to her from the fi rst collection of verse, Wild Flowers of Deseret (Salt Gainesville. Her book, Peace Came in the Form of a “Exploitation and Opportunity: Energy and Indians in spirit world. The “Proem” is in fact Lake, 1881). “The Drunkard’s Wife,” one of the poems, Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands the American Southwest.” The book will be published the work of Mrs. Felicia Hemans— may have some autobiographical relevance. (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), has won by SAR Press. For participants and topics, see http:// dictated from beyond the grave. Our copy is an attractive three awards: the Berkshire Conference of Women smu.edu/swcenter/Energy.htm. book from the press of fellow California spiritualist and Texas women writers are also well Historians book prize for 2007, the Liz Carpenter Award suffragist Amanda Slocum, with an index to the text and represented at the DeGolyer. Mollie from the Texas State Historical Association, and, just ANDREW GRAYBILL (2004-2005) sent news that he several elaborate type ornaments. Evelyn Moore Davis (1852-1909) announced—by an independent jury—The William has been promoted to Associate Professor of History was a prominent author in nineteenth- P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. He and his Utah was also fertile ground for female poets. One of century Texas. In addition to poetry, Southwestern American. (See p. 15 for details on the wife, Jenny, along with daughter, Fiona, welcomed the earliest to publish a book was Sarah E. Carmichael, which she fi rst published in Tyler, award event.) son Gavin Charles Graybill, born on March 4, 2008. whose Poems. A Brief Selection, Published by Texas, newspapers, she also wrote Andrew led the 2007 Clements Center symposium with Permission of the Authoress, for Private Circulation numerous novels, including The Wire FLANNERY BURKE (2002-2003) accepted SMU Associate Professor of History BEN JOHNSON, appeared in San Francisco in 1866. Carmichael’s friends, Cutters (1899), considered by some the a new position as Assistant Professor, on “Bridging National Borders in North America.” who are responsible for publishing this work, marvel fi rst serious “western” novel. Minding Department of History, St. Louis They co-edited the book of essays resulting from that that “in such a secluded spot [Salt Lake City]—shut the Gap and Other Poems (Houston: University. This semester she will be symposium, which is now with Duke University Press. out from the world at large by the frowning barriers of Cushing & Cave, 1867) was her fi rst book. E.H. Cushing teaching the undergraduate survey and a the Rocky Mountains; without the advantages of books published additional volumes of her verse in Houston in graduate U.S. history survey class. The PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN (2001-2002) has been promoted to and intellectual training; without the soul-expanding 1869 and 1872. Davis then turned most of her attention manuscript she worked on as a Clements Associate Professor of History, University of California infl uences of a cultivated and liberal public sentiment; to novels and plays, publishing the majority of her work Center Fellow, From Greenwich Village Santa Barbara, where he was also just named co-director away from the softer elements of natural beauty, and in New York. Her fi nal book of poetry, Selected Poems, to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel of their Center for Borderlands and having nothing but her own heart to commune with— was published in 1927 in New Orleans, where Davis Dodge Luhan’s (University Press of Transcultural Studies. The manuscript her songs have taken so wide and glorious a fl ight; ever spent the last years of her life. It contains an introduction Kansas) was published this spring. One he worked on as a Clements Center loyal to truth and humanity, ever sweet and melodious as and appreciation by writer Grace King. review, “Oddballs in the Desert” by Alexander Theroux, fellow was published in the spring the voice of nature.” was in the 8/1/08 edition of The Wall Street Journal. and quickly received attention. The Amelia V. Purdy (1845-1881) was born in Pittsburgh, Comanche Empire (Yale University The volume includes a number of poems on topical Pennsylvania, in 1845. When she was four, her family BRIAN DELAY (2005-2006), Assistant Press) was selected by the Alternate themes (Lincoln’s funeral, the mines, Ft. Sumter) and moved to Cincinnati; in 1857, the family moved again, Professor of History, University of Selection of History Book Club, the places (California, the Wasatch, Lake Tahoe) as well to Galveston, Texas. She began contributing poems Colorado, Boulder, writes that the Military Book Club, and the Book- as religious and sentimental verse. “The Mines” argues to newspapers in Texas and elsewhere in 1862. In manuscript he worked on while a of-the-Month Club, and has received that the country’s minerals should be used for public 1868, she married Major L. Purdy of Bryan, Texas. He Clements Center fellow, War of a numerous high profi le reviews, including good, particularly for the abolition of slavery, not private died of tuberculosis in 1875, leaving her in straitened Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the one by Larry McMurtry in the New wealth. “Amputated” is striking for its subject matter, if circumstances and poor health. However, she continued U.S.-Mexican War, is now available from York Review of Books. Peninsula Press of England not for its treatment. to write and oversaw the publication of First Fruit Yale University Press. bought the world rights to publish the Spanish-language (Pittsburgh, Pa., 1875), her only book. She remarried version, which will appear in the fall of 2009. Beyond Mary Jane Mount Tanner (1837-1890) and her family a Dr. Jones of Waxahachie and was living in Ennis, BRIAN FREHNER (2004-2005), Assistant this exciting book news, JIM WATSON, who is a member were early converts to the Mormon Church who Texas, at the time of her death (also of consumption) Professor of History, Oklahoma State of the Clements Center’s Advisory Panel, shared a participated in the 1847 exodus to Utah. Her A Book in 1881. Purdy is a poet worth a closer look, especially University, is working with Clement personal connection to Pekka’s work. Jim grew up of Fugitive Poems was published in Salt Lake in 1880. her discordant “Filial Piety,” which strays from the Center’s Associate Director and professor of history, in the heart of the Comanchería in the Brazos River Religious themes tend to predominate in Tanner’s work, conventional.

12 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 5 Iowa, 1870) is a longer, more successful meditation on school at Salem, taught music and art students, and Canyonlands, just off the edge of the high plains. A and will be affi liated with the UNC Institute for the death and suffering. Rebecca Harrington Smith Pollard served as fi rst woman clerk in the Oregon Legislature. year ago he bought a ranch in the area, where he focuses Study of the Americas, where she will contribute a (1831-1917) wrote a novel, Emma Bartlett, or Prejudice “Tears and Victory” is a long poem on the Civil War on wildlife and conservation, including efforts to restore capstone seminar to the program in Latin American and Fanaticism (Cincinnati, 1856) and numerous and should be read in tandem with Margaret Junkin’s the grasslands. Jim looks forward to exploring this Studies. Cynthia looks forward to the teaching and books of poetry as well as books for children, including “Beechenbrook” (Baltimore, 1867) for an entirely terrain with Pekka, showing him historical evidence of research opportunities at UNC-Chapel Hill and to a primer and a speller. Our copy of In Memoriam is different perspective on the confl ict. The other poems Comanche presence. http://brazosrivercanyonlands.com/ completing the research project she began while a inscribed by the author: “To her who watched with here range widely in style and tone, from the comic Clements Fellow. us when Maymie went from us.” We also have her to the sentimental. Her “Crossing the Plains” is a LAURA HERNÁNDEZ-EHRISMAN (2004- Centennial and Other Poems by Kate Harrington masterpiece of light verse. 2005), Adjunct Professor of History, RAÚL RAMOS (2000-2001), Assistant Professor of (Philadelphia, 1877), which includes many poems on St. Edwards University, Austin, reports History, University of Houston, is delighted that the Iowa, as well as illustrations of the Centennial grounds Given California’s leading role as a literary center in that the manuscript she worked on as a manuscript he worked on as a Clements in Philadelphia. the 19th century, we have a respectable showing of Clements Center fellow, Inventing the Center Fellow is now available through California women poets. P. Annetta Peckham’s Cuttings: Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in the University of North Carolina Press: One of the most interesting poems is Selected From the Writings of Mrs. P. Annetta Peckham, San Antonio, is now available through Beyond the Alamo: Forging Ethnicity contained in Anna Tellez, Reunido, author of “Welded Links” (San Francisco: Amanda University of New Mexico Press. Laura in San Antonio de Béxar, 1821-1861. and Fugitive Pieces (New York, M. Slocum, 1877) is a collection of essays and poems, was busy attending book signings in the Together with former Summerlee 1862). The title poem is a long noteworthy in several respects. First, it an example of a San Antonio area during the summer. Fellow Monica Perales, Raúl is co- narrative of the Texas revolution. photographically illustrated book, a nineteenth-century editing a book of essays for a volume About the author, little is known at genre which we collect assiduously at the DeGolyer. S. DEBORAH KANG (2007-2007) accepted a one year on “Recovering the Hispanic History of this time. We like her preface, which Second, not only is it written by a woman but it is visiting assistant professorship at Harvard University Texas,” which will be published by Arte has the brevity of wit: “To the Public. printed by a woman as well. And fi nally, it demonstrates where she will be teaching immigration history and Público Press. Raúl and his wife Dr. Liz If my book has merit, read it. If it the use of “blurbs” by printing notices of the book—all legal history, which is a great match for her M.A. in Chiao celebrated the June birth of Noé has none, lay it on the parlor shelf. favorable, of course—gathered from various California Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Ph.D. in History! Francisco Ramos Chiao. A.T.” Evidently popular, Reunido newspapers. Debbie continues work on her manuscript: “The Legal was reprinted in 1864. Reunido is now on the DeGolyer Construction of the Borderlands: The INS, Immigration This fall JOAQUÍN RIVAYA MARTINEZ (2007-2008) began shelf, awaiting its explicator. Mary Hannah Field’s An Arboreal Song of the Alameda Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border, a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of History (The Beautiful Way). Presented to the Ladies’ Benevolent 1917-1954” for publication. at Texas State University in San Marcos, where he Another unusual work is Sarah Jane Hamilton, The Society of San Jose, Cal. (San Jose, 1878) is a romantic will continue work on his manuscript, “Captivity and Angel of the Covenant, a Poem. Complete in Three poem of California’s mission period, on the planting of ERIC MEEKS (2005-2006), Associate Professor of History Adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875,” Books (Roseburg, Oregon, 1886), a Biblical epic by a pathway of willows between San Jose and the Santa at Northern Arizona University, reports that the book for publication. an unknown woman writer. Our copy bears intriguing Clara Mission. Delia M. Hills, Whisperings of Time (San published as a result of his Clements Center fellowship, annotations, suggesting it once belonged, if not to the Francisco, 1880) was printed by the Women’s Printing Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and SYLVIA RODRIGUEZ (Fall 2003), Professor of author, to a very astute reader. The publishers, in their Union and is a collection of poetry mostly on religious Anglos in Arizona, was a fi nalist for the 2008 National Anthropology, University of New Mexico, was preface, hope that “in the revolution that the world is and sentimental themes. “Only Golden Curls” is another Council on Public History Book Award. appointed Director of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for now undergoing, the American Occident may ultimately poem on the death of children. “The Emigrants” gives us Intercultural Studies for the coming academic year. be determined as the seat of modern literature.” Perhaps: two different views, male and female, of the westering Drawing on his expertise in the history of the power Her focus will be on program development around but their exemplar writes in Alexandrines. Only two experience. industry, ANDREW NEEDHAM, Assistant Professor of a number of themes of interest to local and regional other copies are known, at the Library of Congress and History at New York University, participated in the communities as well as to scholars across a range of in the Harris Collection at Brown University. Mrs. N. Furlong published Cozenza, a Tale of Italy last Clements Center’s symposium, “Indians and disciplines, which resonates with the award-winning and other Poems (San Francisco, 1880), including also Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American book she worked on while a Clements Center fellow, Lily Elizabeth Graves Hendrix (b. 1868) published “Nonnenwerth, a Legend of the Rhine,” but the shorter Southwest,” and is now also a participant in the spring Acequia: Water-Sharing, Sanctity and Place in Hispanic Fragments: A Book of Poems (Mexico, Mo., 1894), an poems are perhaps her best, such as “The Beer Swill,” 2009 symposium, “Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of New Mexico (SAR Press, 2006). Sylvia contributed a interesting book in several respects. As far as we can prefaced by this remark from the author: Space, Place, and Region in the American South and chapter related to this book, “Honor, Aridity, and Place,” tell, this may be the fi rst (and only?) book of poetry Southwest” (see p. 16). in Expressing New Mexico, ed. Philip B. González, published in Mexico, Missouri. The author was a Paris has her “sans culottes:” Naples has University of Arizona Press, pp. 25-41. graduate of the Missouri School for the Blind, according her “Lazzaroni:” and San Francisco has MONICA PERALES (2006-2007) Assistant Professor of to the title page. Beyond that, we have little biographical her “Beer Swills.” The last cognomen is History, University of Houston wrote that her article, JAMES E. SNEAD (1998-1999), Associate Professor of information. There are some delightful poems herein, not so euphonious as the French or Italian, “Fighting to Stay in Smeltertown: Lead Contamination Anthropology, George Mason University, spent much including “Ungathered Roses,” a fi ne imitation of but it is not less signifi cant of a special and Environmental Justice in a Mexican American of the 2007-2008 year as a Visiting Research Associate Herrick (“Gather your roses while they are fresh / And class. Though not so numerous as those Community,” appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of at the School for Advanced Research on the Human beautiful at the dawning”). of the European cities, we are not behind- the Western Historical Quarterly. (See Raul Ramos’s Condition in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working on a hand in the quality of originality. section below for news of a joint project.) project entitled “The Archaeology of Annihilation.” His Another talented writer is Belle Walker Cooke (1834- new book, Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, 1919). Her Tears and Victory and Other Poems She goes on to describe two comrade specimens of the CYNTHIA RADDING (Spring 2007) accepted an was published by the University of Arizona Press last was published in Salem, Oregon, in 1871. Born in breed, emerging from their straw pallets underneath a appointment to the History Department of the University spring. In early April, James was invited by former Connecticut, Belle Walker Cooke crossed the plains sidewalk in “Tar Flat,” and sauntering arm-in-arm “away of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as the Gussenhoven Clements Center fellow HEATHER TRIGG to give a lecture with her parents in 1852. She was an educator and to the nearest beer kegs that were left outside the night Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies. She at the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at music teacher as well as poet. Her husband, Edwin before.” The frontispiece is a lithograph by Britton & writes that she has joined a strong history department the University of Massachusetts-Boston. After that he Cooke, taught at several colleges and schools, including Rey, after a photograph by Thomas Houseworth & Co. Willamette University. For years she conducted a private Both were leading fi rms in San Francisco at this time.

6 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 11 met with another former Clements Center fellow, SAM the manuscript she worked on while a Clements Center Emily’s Sisters: 19th-Century Women Poets at DeGolyer Library TRUETT, at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown fellow, Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, will be by Russell L. Martin, Director University. In May, James was awarded a Post-Doctoral available through the University of Washington Press Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for in February. Marsha received one of nine Burkhardt Editor’s note: Scholars who have worked in DeGolyer One of our earliest “western” books is Rebecca S. Anthropological Research for his project “Encountering Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Library know that it is a “jewel” among special Reed Nichols, Bernice, or, The Curse of Minna, and Antiquity,” a study of the relationship between public Societies to support her upcoming sabbatical, when collections libraries. Director Russell Martin describes Other Poems (Cincinnati, 1844). Nichols (1820-1903) perceptions of the New World and the development of she will be in residence at the Huntington Library. it in detail in an essay, “Western Americana Collection, was born in New Jersey; she moved with her father, a American archaeology in the 19th century. The grant She is also doing research for a new book, “The River DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University: A physician, to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1836 and married will support visits to archives throughout the United Runs Wild,” an environmental history of the meaning Guide for Scholars,” in a special issue of the Journal Willard Nichols in 1837. In 1840 they went to St. States to collect primary source material. of “wild” while continuing work on another book, of the West on “Archives on the West” (Vol. 47, No. Louis, where they edited a daily paper for a year; they “Breaking Ground,” which is about the connections 1,Winter 2008: 51-60) edited by Peter Blodgett, H. then moved to Cincinnati, where she spent her most SAM TRUETT (1997-1998), Associate Professor of between Earth Art and the modern environmental Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical active years, writing for the newspapers under the name History, University of New Mexico, was selected movement, which she is co-authoring with Jarma Manuscripts, Huntington Library. “Kate Cleveland.” Her Songs of the Heart and of the as a “Top Young Historian” by HNN History News Jones, one of her former M.A. students. Marsha and Hearthstone was published in Cincinnati in 1851. In Network in April. Last spring he was a fellow at the her husband, Tim, recently bought a historic house in C.G. Campbell, General their preface to Bernice, the publishers note that “The Center for New World Comparative Studies at the Las Cruces, an English cottage built in 1940, and are Variety Store, Greenville, John Carter Brown Library (Providence, RI), where spending lots of time and money fi xing the place up and Burton P.O., Texas, West is emphatically a productive country” and they printed on the front are eager to promote the work of western writers to he worked on a new book project,“Old New Worlds: making it more environmentally friendly. endpaper of Mollie E. Ruins, Borderlands, and Empire in America.” This Moore, Poems (Houston, “thousands of readers east of the Alleghanies.” Tex.: E.H. Cushing, 1869). Antebellum Cincinnati was the leading city of the Ohio book explores the fascination with—and appropriation MARTINA WILL DE CHAPARRO (2001-2002), Assistant Valley and the publishing center for the western country. of—American ruins (including pre-colonial antiquities, Professor of History, Texas Woman’s University, sent This essay’s purpose The political events of the time are well represented in the crumbling remains of prior empires, and western news that she has joined her husband Andrés in Chicago, is to highlight Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems. By a ghost towns) in the borderlands of the U.S. empire from where he accepted a job with Telemundo. Based in some of DeGolyer Daughter of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1853). Written as the colonial era to the twentieth century, asking how this Evanston, Illinois, Martina is teaching online courses for Library’s holdings a protest to a bill introduced in the Ohio legislature to obsession shaped and haunted the idea of America. This TWU this fall. in American women’s poetry of the nineteenth century. deny free blacks property rights in the state, the title academic year he will continue to work on this book While we have no Emily Dickinson to offer, we do have poem was intended to cast “The Sunlight of Truth as the Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History at the TISA WENGER (2002-2003), Assistant Professor of a considerable range of more obscure poets, most from over the moral landscape,” according to the author’s Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. His book published Religious Studies, Arizona State University, and her the South or the West, a refl ection of our long-standing preface. Many of the other poems also develop anti- as a result of his Clements Center fellowship, Fugitive husband, Rod Groff, announced the birth of Dylan institutional interest in collecting regional imprints. As slavery themes, including “The Slave’s Lament,” “The Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico James Wenger Groff, born May 16, 2008. He joins older a group, these poets represent some of the main currents Infant Slave,” and “Stanzas.” We have been unable to Borderlands (Yale University Press) has been selected brother, Jordan, and sister, Sophia. Tisa’s fellowship in American verse of the period. At fi rst glance these determine the identity of the “Daughter of Kentucky” as an Outstanding Academic title for 2007 by Choice manuscript, Savage Debauchery or Sacred Communion? women would appear to have little in common with but we believe this is a book that makes an important Magazine and is now available in paperback. Religion and the Primitive in the Pueblo Dance Emily Dickinson. Like many of their male counterparts, contribution to the political discourse of the times. This Controversy, is forthcoming from University of North they generally follow traditional forms and often convey “Daughter” was active in both the public and private MARSHA WEISIGER (2000-2001) Associate Professor of Carolina Press. conventional ideas if not platitudes. But it would be a spheres. History at New Mexico State University, sent news that mistake to dismiss them entirely. Many of these writers have genuine poetic talent and deserve a re-reading (or More in the domestic vein is Lurania A.H. Munday, even a fi rst reading). As women, all of them are of great Acacian Lyrics and Miscellaneous Poems (St. Louis, historical interest, allowing us to better understand the 1857). Born in Cincinnati in 1828, Lurania A.H. constraints and opportunities facing women writers in Munday spent her childhood in the country, near Mason, the nineteenth century. Women were always writing on in Warren County. As a child she had “a sensitive and the margins, and especially so in the western country. ANNOUNCING THE 2008-2009 BILL CLEMENTS DISSERTATION FELLOW shrinking disposition,” was seldom enrolled in school, For students of literary history, printing history, social and had access to few books. At sixteen she entered history, and women’s history, these works have much to In honor of Governor Clements’ ninetieth birthday, two of Governor Clements’ an Ohio academy and then later taught school. She commend them. friends gave the Clements Center a remarkable gift. They are anonymously discovered a gift for poetry at school and the country underwriting four Clements Dissertation Fellowships for SMU doctoral students newspapers were soon fi lled with poems signed Poets of the West. A Selection of Favourite American in History over three years. The Clements Center has awarded the 2008-2009 “Lurania.” She eventually married a Dr. W.B. Munday, Poets with Memoirs of their Authors (London, 1859) fellowship to SMU History Ph.D. student, JOSÉ GABRIEL MARTÍNEZ-SERNA, for but after eight years he died, leaving her with “a broken is proof that “the West” is a relative term—none of the his work on “The Society of Jesus, Viticulture, and the Rise and Decline of an constitution” and slender fi nances. She returned to her poets in this anthology hails from beyond the eastern Indian Frontier Town: Santa María de las Parras, Nueva Vizcaya, 1598-1822.” father’s house and at the time of this book’s publication seaboard. From the perspective of London, Philadelphia Gabriel’s study merges the historiography of colonial Mexico with the frontier was living on a farm in Illinois. Among her verses is does indeed lie in the West. Here we also fi nd some historiography of the American Southwest, geographically and methodologically “The Daguerrean Gallery,” a fi ne poem on the new familiar names, such as Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, bridging these often mutually exclusive schools. He will receive a living art of photography. In a time when infant mortality and Poe. Of the thirty American poets included, fi ve are allowance and travel/research fund so he can devote full time to his dissertation was much more prevalent than today, poems about the women: Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and receive his doctoral degree in May 2009. For more information, please see deaths of children loom large in the nineteenth century. Maria Brooks, Lucretia Maria Davidson, and Frances http://smu.edu/swcenter/Dissertation.htm Most of this verse is heart-felt but often borders on the Sargent Osgood. lugubrious, especially to modern ears. In Memoriam. Maymie, April 6th, 1869 by Kate Harrington (Keokuk,

10 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 7 NEWS FROM THE CLEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Ph.D. GRADUATES PUBLICATION NEWS

The William P. Clements Department of History, in conjunction with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, IN 2008 SYMPOSIA BOOKS ARE ADDING UP! PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN, Associate Professor of History offers an innovative Ph.D. program. The course of study explores American historical experiences in global and Each year the Clements Center sponsors a symposium University of California, Santa Barbara (2001-2002). comparative perspectives, with special emphasis on advanced level work on the American Southwest and Mexico. centered on an important question about the American The Comanche Empire. Yale University Press, 2008. (http://smu.edu/history/index_phd.shtml) Southwest or the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. It is energizing to see each group of participants’ essays BRIAN DELAY, Assistant Professor of History, University MATTHEW M. BABCOCK powerful than Europeans militarily and economically, become a book, and especially so when they start being of Colorado, Boulder (2005-2006). War of a Thousand (2008), on left, shown including in the profi table trade of kidnapping and published one after another. In 2008 two symposium Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. Yale with SMU history selling their indigenous neighbors. books are already available, two are forthcoming, and University Press, 2008. professor, John one is in the editing stage. Please see our Web site for Chávez, and fellow At the 2009 meeting of the Organization of American updates. MELINDA RANKIN’S TWENTY YEARS AMONG Ph.D. graduate Jeffrey Historians Bonnie has organized a panel on slavery’s THE MEXICANS: NEW ENGLISH & SPANISH Schulze, is now a economic and geographical borderlands. She will The Political Culture of the New West, EDITED AND ANNOTATED EDITIONS visiting professor of discuss her discoveries about the mortgaging of slaves edited by Jeff Roche, published by The history at Stephen F. in Spanish New Orleans, while former Clements University Press of Kansas. The Clements Center and DeGolyer Austin State University in Nacogdoches for 2008-2009. Center Fellow Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez will give Library collaborated to republish Melinda In the spring the New Mexico Historical Review will insight into the economic and cultural dimensions of Memories and Migrations: Mapping Rankin’s 1875 autobiography, Twenty publish his article, “Rethinking the Establecimientos: Comanche slavery. The commentator will be James F. Boricua & Chicana Histories, edited Years among the Mexicans: A Narrative Why Apaches Settled on Spanish-Run Reservations, Brooks, President and CEO of The School for Advanced by Vicki L. Ruiz and John R. Chávez, of Missionary Labor, as a collector’s 1786-1793.” Research, and author of Captives & Cousins: Slavery, published by University of Illinois Press. edition in The Library of Texas series. Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Professor Miguel Ángel González Quiroga, ALICIA M. DEWEY, Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture Universidad de Nuevo León, and SMU Associate Professor of HOUSTON F. MOUNT, II (2008) is in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, edited Ph.D. student Timothy Bowman edited History, Biola University teaching this fall as a Lecturer in by Alexis M. McCrossen, forthcoming it and wrote the introduction. The Fondo Editorial in (2007), shown at her SMU History at East Central University from Duke University Press. Monterrey, Nuevo León, published the Spanish edition graduation with John in Ada, Oklahoma. He will be (www.fondoeditorialnl.gob.mx). The English version is Mears, SMU Associate teaching a Latin American Survey, Bridging Borders in North America, edited by available at: www.smu.edu/swcenter/Rankin.htm. Professor of Early Modern Western Civilization, World History, Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew Graybill, forthcoming Europe and Global and and an upper division course on oil. from Duke University Press. TWO WINNERS OF THE 2008 CLOTILDE P. Comparative History. His dissertation was on “Oil Field GARCIA TEJANO BOOK PRIZE! Revolutionaries: The Career of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in This prize was named in honor and memory of Clotilde Everette Lee DeGolyer.” FRANCES X. GALAN (2006) the American Southwest, edited by Sherry L. Smith and P. Garcia, M.D., who was a civic leader, community is a visiting professor at Brian Frehner, this spring’s symposium book is in the advocate, historian, genealogist and author of numerous JOSÉ A. RAMÍREZ (2007), while teaching history Our Lady of the Lake editing stage with SAR Press. books on South Texas history. at Laredo Community College, is converting his University in San Antonio dissertation into a book manuscript, “‘To the Line this fall. At the Texas State A BOUNTIFUL YEAR FOR FELLOWS’ BOOKS! The first prize was given to of Fire, Mexican-Texans!’: The Tejano Community Historical Association Although mentioned earlier when giving news of each Voices from the Goliad Frontier: and World War I.” He will contribute a chapter for a conference last March, he scholar, it is worth acknowledging and celebrating that in Municipal Council Minutes 1821- collaborative book by Drs. Charles Grear and Alexander enjoyed a deep discussion 2008 fi ve fellows’ books were published thanks to four 1835, translated by Malcolm D. Mendoza, tentatively titled “Texas and War.” with historian Malcolm different university presses! McLean and edited by John McLean, McLean on the occasion published by the William P. Clements JEFFREY M. SCHULZE (2008) continues teaching history of the introduction of FLANNERY BURKE, Assistant Professor of History, St. Center for Southwest Studies, Southern at the University of Texas at Dallas, and revising his McLean’s new book, Voices from the Goliad Frontier, Louis University (2002-2003). From Greenwich Methodist University, 2008. dissertation for publication: “Trans-Nations: Indians, 1821-1835, published by the Clements Center. (See Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge (http://smu.edu/swcenter/Goliad.htm) Imagined Communities, and Border Realities in the p. 9 for prize announcement.) Luhan’s, University Press of Kansas, 2008. Twentieth Century.” The second prize winner was Beyond the Alamo LAURA HERNÁNDEZ-EHRISMAN, BONNIE MARTIN (2006) is now bringing a southwestern Adjunct Professor of Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821- CLIVE G. SIEGLE (2007), in addition to teaching at perspective to the study of slavery in the northern History, St. Edwards University, Austin (2004-2005). 1861, by RAÚL A. RAMOS, published by the University of Richland Community College in Dallas, is an adjunct academy. She is the Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in North Carolina Press, 2008. Now an assistant professor lecturer of History at SMU this fall with a new course, at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of Slavery San Antonio, University of New Mexico Press, 2008. of history at the University of Houston, Raúl is also a “Of Placers and Pachyderms: the California Gold Rush and Abolition at Yale University. In the spring Bonnie Clements Center’s Fellow. He received the Summerfi eld and the Road to El Dorado.” His dissertation was will teach a seminar that compares 18th century slavery RAÚL A. RAMOS, Assistant Professor of History, Roberts Research Fellowship in Texas History for 2000- “Ciboleros and Sharps Rifl es: Hispanics, Anglos, and the in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and South University of Houston (2000-2001). Beyond the Alamo: 2001. Great Buffalo Harvest, 1785-1879.” Carolina. It was a time when Indians were much more Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861, University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

8 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 9 NEWS FROM THE CLEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Ph.D. GRADUATES PUBLICATION NEWS

The William P. Clements Department of History, in conjunction with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, IN 2008 SYMPOSIA BOOKS ARE ADDING UP! PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN, Associate Professor of History offers an innovative Ph.D. program. The course of study explores American historical experiences in global and Each year the Clements Center sponsors a symposium University of California, Santa Barbara (2001-2002). comparative perspectives, with special emphasis on advanced level work on the American Southwest and Mexico. centered on an important question about the American The Comanche Empire. Yale University Press, 2008. (http://smu.edu/history/index_phd.shtml) Southwest or the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. It is energizing to see each group of participants’ essays BRIAN DELAY, Assistant Professor of History, University MATTHEW M. BABCOCK powerful than Europeans militarily and economically, become a book, and especially so when they start being of Colorado, Boulder (2005-2006). War of a Thousand (2008), on left, shown including in the profi table trade of kidnapping and published one after another. In 2008 two symposium Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. Yale with SMU history selling their indigenous neighbors. books are already available, two are forthcoming, and University Press, 2008. professor, John one is in the editing stage. Please see our Web site for Chávez, and fellow At the 2009 meeting of the Organization of American updates. MELINDA RANKIN’S TWENTY YEARS AMONG Ph.D. graduate Jeffrey Historians Bonnie has organized a panel on slavery’s THE MEXICANS: NEW ENGLISH & SPANISH Schulze, is now a economic and geographical borderlands. She will The Political Culture of the New West, EDITED AND ANNOTATED EDITIONS visiting professor of discuss her discoveries about the mortgaging of slaves edited by Jeff Roche, published by The history at Stephen F. in Spanish New Orleans, while former Clements University Press of Kansas. The Clements Center and DeGolyer Austin State University in Nacogdoches for 2008-2009. Center Fellow Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez will give Library collaborated to republish Melinda In the spring the New Mexico Historical Review will insight into the economic and cultural dimensions of Memories and Migrations: Mapping Rankin’s 1875 autobiography, Twenty publish his article, “Rethinking the Establecimientos: Comanche slavery. The commentator will be James F. Boricua & Chicana Histories, edited Years among the Mexicans: A Narrative Why Apaches Settled on Spanish-Run Reservations, Brooks, President and CEO of The School for Advanced by Vicki L. Ruiz and John R. Chávez, of Missionary Labor, as a collector’s 1786-1793.” Research, and author of Captives & Cousins: Slavery, published by University of Illinois Press. edition in The Library of Texas series. Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Professor Miguel Ángel González Quiroga, ALICIA M. DEWEY, Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture Universidad de Nuevo León, and SMU Associate Professor of HOUSTON F. MOUNT, II (2008) is in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, edited Ph.D. student Timothy Bowman edited History, Biola University teaching this fall as a Lecturer in by Alexis M. McCrossen, forthcoming it and wrote the introduction. The Fondo Editorial in (2007), shown at her SMU History at East Central University from Duke University Press. Monterrey, Nuevo León, published the Spanish edition graduation with John in Ada, Oklahoma. He will be (www.fondoeditorialnl.gob.mx). The English version is Mears, SMU Associate teaching a Latin American Survey, Bridging Borders in North America, edited by available at: www.smu.edu/swcenter/Rankin.htm. Professor of Early Modern Western Civilization, World History, Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew Graybill, forthcoming Europe and Global and and an upper division course on oil. from Duke University Press. TWO WINNERS OF THE 2008 CLOTILDE P. Comparative History. His dissertation was on “Oil Field GARCIA TEJANO BOOK PRIZE! Revolutionaries: The Career of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in This prize was named in honor and memory of Clotilde Everette Lee DeGolyer.” FRANCES X. GALAN (2006) the American Southwest, edited by Sherry L. Smith and P. Garcia, M.D., who was a civic leader, community is a visiting professor at Brian Frehner, this spring’s symposium book is in the advocate, historian, genealogist and author of numerous JOSÉ A. RAMÍREZ (2007), while teaching history Our Lady of the Lake editing stage with SAR Press. books on South Texas history. at Laredo Community College, is converting his University in San Antonio dissertation into a book manuscript, “‘To the Line this fall. At the Texas State A BOUNTIFUL YEAR FOR FELLOWS’ BOOKS! The first prize was given to of Fire, Mexican-Texans!’: The Tejano Community Historical Association Although mentioned earlier when giving news of each Voices from the Goliad Frontier: and World War I.” He will contribute a chapter for a conference last March, he scholar, it is worth acknowledging and celebrating that in Municipal Council Minutes 1821- collaborative book by Drs. Charles Grear and Alexander enjoyed a deep discussion 2008 fi ve fellows’ books were published thanks to four 1835, translated by Malcolm D. Mendoza, tentatively titled “Texas and War.” with historian Malcolm different university presses! McLean and edited by John McLean, McLean on the occasion published by the William P. Clements JEFFREY M. SCHULZE (2008) continues teaching history of the introduction of FLANNERY BURKE, Assistant Professor of History, St. Center for Southwest Studies, Southern at the University of Texas at Dallas, and revising his McLean’s new book, Voices from the Goliad Frontier, Louis University (2002-2003). From Greenwich Methodist University, 2008. dissertation for publication: “Trans-Nations: Indians, 1821-1835, published by the Clements Center. (See Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge (http://smu.edu/swcenter/Goliad.htm) Imagined Communities, and Border Realities in the p. 9 for prize announcement.) Luhan’s, University Press of Kansas, 2008. Twentieth Century.” The second prize winner was Beyond the Alamo LAURA HERNÁNDEZ-EHRISMAN, BONNIE MARTIN (2006) is now bringing a southwestern Adjunct Professor of Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821- CLIVE G. SIEGLE (2007), in addition to teaching at perspective to the study of slavery in the northern History, St. Edwards University, Austin (2004-2005). 1861, by RAÚL A. RAMOS, published by the University of Richland Community College in Dallas, is an adjunct academy. She is the Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in North Carolina Press, 2008. Now an assistant professor lecturer of History at SMU this fall with a new course, at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of Slavery San Antonio, University of New Mexico Press, 2008. of history at the University of Houston, Raúl is also a “Of Placers and Pachyderms: the California Gold Rush and Abolition at Yale University. In the spring Bonnie Clements Center’s Fellow. He received the Summerfi eld and the Road to El Dorado.” His dissertation was will teach a seminar that compares 18th century slavery RAÚL A. RAMOS, Assistant Professor of History, Roberts Research Fellowship in Texas History for 2000- “Ciboleros and Sharps Rifl es: Hispanics, Anglos, and the in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and South University of Houston (2000-2001). Beyond the Alamo: 2001. Great Buffalo Harvest, 1785-1879.” Carolina. It was a time when Indians were much more Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861, University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

8 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 9 met with another former Clements Center fellow, SAM the manuscript she worked on while a Clements Center Emily’s Sisters: 19th-Century Women Poets at DeGolyer Library TRUETT, at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown fellow, Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, will be by Russell L. Martin, Director University. In May, James was awarded a Post-Doctoral available through the University of Washington Press Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for in February. Marsha received one of nine Burkhardt Editor’s note: Scholars who have worked in DeGolyer One of our earliest “western” books is Rebecca S. Anthropological Research for his project “Encountering Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Library know that it is a “jewel” among special Reed Nichols, Bernice, or, The Curse of Minna, and Antiquity,” a study of the relationship between public Societies to support her upcoming sabbatical, when collections libraries. Director Russell Martin describes Other Poems (Cincinnati, 1844). Nichols (1820-1903) perceptions of the New World and the development of she will be in residence at the Huntington Library. it in detail in an essay, “Western Americana Collection, was born in New Jersey; she moved with her father, a American archaeology in the 19th century. The grant She is also doing research for a new book, “The River DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University: A physician, to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1836 and married will support visits to archives throughout the United Runs Wild,” an environmental history of the meaning Guide for Scholars,” in a special issue of the Journal Willard Nichols in 1837. In 1840 they went to St. States to collect primary source material. of “wild” while continuing work on another book, of the West on “Archives on the West” (Vol. 47, No. Louis, where they edited a daily paper for a year; they “Breaking Ground,” which is about the connections 1,Winter 2008: 51-60) edited by Peter Blodgett, H. then moved to Cincinnati, where she spent her most SAM TRUETT (1997-1998), Associate Professor of between Earth Art and the modern environmental Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical active years, writing for the newspapers under the name History, University of New Mexico, was selected movement, which she is co-authoring with Jarma Manuscripts, Huntington Library. “Kate Cleveland.” Her Songs of the Heart and of the as a “Top Young Historian” by HNN History News Jones, one of her former M.A. students. Marsha and Hearthstone was published in Cincinnati in 1851. In Network in April. Last spring he was a fellow at the her husband, Tim, recently bought a historic house in C.G. Campbell, General their preface to Bernice, the publishers note that “The Center for New World Comparative Studies at the Las Cruces, an English cottage built in 1940, and are Variety Store, Greenville, John Carter Brown Library (Providence, RI), where spending lots of time and money fi xing the place up and Burton P.O., Texas, West is emphatically a productive country” and they printed on the front are eager to promote the work of western writers to he worked on a new book project,“Old New Worlds: making it more environmentally friendly. endpaper of Mollie E. Ruins, Borderlands, and Empire in America.” This Moore, Poems (Houston, “thousands of readers east of the Alleghanies.” Tex.: E.H. Cushing, 1869). Antebellum Cincinnati was the leading city of the Ohio book explores the fascination with—and appropriation MARTINA WILL DE CHAPARRO (2001-2002), Assistant Valley and the publishing center for the western country. of—American ruins (including pre-colonial antiquities, Professor of History, Texas Woman’s University, sent This essay’s purpose The political events of the time are well represented in the crumbling remains of prior empires, and western news that she has joined her husband Andrés in Chicago, is to highlight Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems. By a ghost towns) in the borderlands of the U.S. empire from where he accepted a job with Telemundo. Based in some of DeGolyer Daughter of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1853). Written as the colonial era to the twentieth century, asking how this Evanston, Illinois, Martina is teaching online courses for Library’s holdings a protest to a bill introduced in the Ohio legislature to obsession shaped and haunted the idea of America. This TWU this fall. in American women’s poetry of the nineteenth century. deny free blacks property rights in the state, the title academic year he will continue to work on this book While we have no Emily Dickinson to offer, we do have poem was intended to cast “The Sunlight of Truth as the Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History at the TISA WENGER (2002-2003), Assistant Professor of a considerable range of more obscure poets, most from over the moral landscape,” according to the author’s Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. His book published Religious Studies, Arizona State University, and her the South or the West, a refl ection of our long-standing preface. Many of the other poems also develop anti- as a result of his Clements Center fellowship, Fugitive husband, Rod Groff, announced the birth of Dylan institutional interest in collecting regional imprints. As slavery themes, including “The Slave’s Lament,” “The Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico James Wenger Groff, born May 16, 2008. He joins older a group, these poets represent some of the main currents Infant Slave,” and “Stanzas.” We have been unable to Borderlands (Yale University Press) has been selected brother, Jordan, and sister, Sophia. Tisa’s fellowship in American verse of the period. At fi rst glance these determine the identity of the “Daughter of Kentucky” as an Outstanding Academic title for 2007 by Choice manuscript, Savage Debauchery or Sacred Communion? women would appear to have little in common with but we believe this is a book that makes an important Magazine and is now available in paperback. Religion and the Primitive in the Pueblo Dance Emily Dickinson. Like many of their male counterparts, contribution to the political discourse of the times. This Controversy, is forthcoming from University of North they generally follow traditional forms and often convey “Daughter” was active in both the public and private MARSHA WEISIGER (2000-2001) Associate Professor of Carolina Press. conventional ideas if not platitudes. But it would be a spheres. History at New Mexico State University, sent news that mistake to dismiss them entirely. Many of these writers have genuine poetic talent and deserve a re-reading (or More in the domestic vein is Lurania A.H. Munday, even a fi rst reading). As women, all of them are of great Acacian Lyrics and Miscellaneous Poems (St. Louis, historical interest, allowing us to better understand the 1857). Born in Cincinnati in 1828, Lurania A.H. constraints and opportunities facing women writers in Munday spent her childhood in the country, near Mason, the nineteenth century. Women were always writing on in Warren County. As a child she had “a sensitive and the margins, and especially so in the western country. ANNOUNCING THE 2008-2009 BILL CLEMENTS DISSERTATION FELLOW shrinking disposition,” was seldom enrolled in school, For students of literary history, printing history, social and had access to few books. At sixteen she entered history, and women’s history, these works have much to In honor of Governor Clements’ ninetieth birthday, two of Governor Clements’ an Ohio academy and then later taught school. She commend them. friends gave the Clements Center a remarkable gift. They are anonymously discovered a gift for poetry at school and the country underwriting four Clements Dissertation Fellowships for SMU doctoral students newspapers were soon fi lled with poems signed Poets of the West. A Selection of Favourite American in History over three years. The Clements Center has awarded the 2008-2009 “Lurania.” She eventually married a Dr. W.B. Munday, Poets with Memoirs of their Authors (London, 1859) fellowship to SMU History Ph.D. student, JOSÉ GABRIEL MARTÍNEZ-SERNA, for but after eight years he died, leaving her with “a broken is proof that “the West” is a relative term—none of the his work on “The Society of Jesus, Viticulture, and the Rise and Decline of an constitution” and slender fi nances. She returned to her poets in this anthology hails from beyond the eastern Indian Frontier Town: Santa María de las Parras, Nueva Vizcaya, 1598-1822.” father’s house and at the time of this book’s publication seaboard. From the perspective of London, Philadelphia Gabriel’s study merges the historiography of colonial Mexico with the frontier was living on a farm in Illinois. Among her verses is does indeed lie in the West. Here we also fi nd some historiography of the American Southwest, geographically and methodologically “The Daguerrean Gallery,” a fi ne poem on the new familiar names, such as Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, bridging these often mutually exclusive schools. He will receive a living art of photography. In a time when infant mortality and Poe. Of the thirty American poets included, fi ve are allowance and travel/research fund so he can devote full time to his dissertation was much more prevalent than today, poems about the women: Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and receive his doctoral degree in May 2009. For more information, please see deaths of children loom large in the nineteenth century. Maria Brooks, Lucretia Maria Davidson, and Frances http://smu.edu/swcenter/Dissertation.htm Most of this verse is heart-felt but often borders on the Sargent Osgood. lugubrious, especially to modern ears. In Memoriam. Maymie, April 6th, 1869 by Kate Harrington (Keokuk,

10 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 7 Iowa, 1870) is a longer, more successful meditation on school at Salem, taught music and art students, and Canyonlands, just off the edge of the high plains. A and will be affi liated with the UNC Institute for the death and suffering. Rebecca Harrington Smith Pollard served as fi rst woman clerk in the Oregon Legislature. year ago he bought a ranch in the area, where he focuses Study of the Americas, where she will contribute a (1831-1917) wrote a novel, Emma Bartlett, or Prejudice “Tears and Victory” is a long poem on the Civil War on wildlife and conservation, including efforts to restore capstone seminar to the program in Latin American and Fanaticism (Cincinnati, 1856) and numerous and should be read in tandem with Margaret Junkin’s the grasslands. Jim looks forward to exploring this Studies. Cynthia looks forward to the teaching and books of poetry as well as books for children, including “Beechenbrook” (Baltimore, 1867) for an entirely terrain with Pekka, showing him historical evidence of research opportunities at UNC-Chapel Hill and to a primer and a speller. Our copy of In Memoriam is different perspective on the confl ict. The other poems Comanche presence. http://brazosrivercanyonlands.com/ completing the research project she began while a inscribed by the author: “To her who watched with here range widely in style and tone, from the comic Clements Fellow. us when Maymie went from us.” We also have her to the sentimental. Her “Crossing the Plains” is a LAURA HERNÁNDEZ-EHRISMAN (2004- Centennial and Other Poems by Kate Harrington masterpiece of light verse. 2005), Adjunct Professor of History, RAÚL RAMOS (2000-2001), Assistant Professor of (Philadelphia, 1877), which includes many poems on St. Edwards University, Austin, reports History, University of Houston, is delighted that the Iowa, as well as illustrations of the Centennial grounds Given California’s leading role as a literary center in that the manuscript she worked on as a manuscript he worked on as a Clements in Philadelphia. the 19th century, we have a respectable showing of Clements Center fellow, Inventing the Center Fellow is now available through California women poets. P. Annetta Peckham’s Cuttings: Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in the University of North Carolina Press: One of the most interesting poems is Selected From the Writings of Mrs. P. Annetta Peckham, San Antonio, is now available through Beyond the Alamo: Forging Ethnicity contained in Anna Tellez, Reunido, author of “Welded Links” (San Francisco: Amanda University of New Mexico Press. Laura in San Antonio de Béxar, 1821-1861. and Fugitive Pieces (New York, M. Slocum, 1877) is a collection of essays and poems, was busy attending book signings in the Together with former Summerlee 1862). The title poem is a long noteworthy in several respects. First, it an example of a San Antonio area during the summer. Fellow Monica Perales, Raúl is co- narrative of the Texas revolution. photographically illustrated book, a nineteenth-century editing a book of essays for a volume About the author, little is known at genre which we collect assiduously at the DeGolyer. S. DEBORAH KANG (2007-2007) accepted a one year on “Recovering the Hispanic History of this time. We like her preface, which Second, not only is it written by a woman but it is visiting assistant professorship at Harvard University Texas,” which will be published by Arte has the brevity of wit: “To the Public. printed by a woman as well. And fi nally, it demonstrates where she will be teaching immigration history and Público Press. Raúl and his wife Dr. Liz If my book has merit, read it. If it the use of “blurbs” by printing notices of the book—all legal history, which is a great match for her M.A. in Chiao celebrated the June birth of Noé has none, lay it on the parlor shelf. favorable, of course—gathered from various California Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Ph.D. in History! Francisco Ramos Chiao. A.T.” Evidently popular, Reunido newspapers. Debbie continues work on her manuscript: “The Legal was reprinted in 1864. Reunido is now on the DeGolyer Construction of the Borderlands: The INS, Immigration This fall JOAQUÍN RIVAYA MARTINEZ (2007-2008) began shelf, awaiting its explicator. Mary Hannah Field’s An Arboreal Song of the Alameda Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border, a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of History (The Beautiful Way). Presented to the Ladies’ Benevolent 1917-1954” for publication. at Texas State University in San Marcos, where he Another unusual work is Sarah Jane Hamilton, The Society of San Jose, Cal. (San Jose, 1878) is a romantic will continue work on his manuscript, “Captivity and Angel of the Covenant, a Poem. Complete in Three poem of California’s mission period, on the planting of ERIC MEEKS (2005-2006), Associate Professor of History Adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875,” Books (Roseburg, Oregon, 1886), a Biblical epic by a pathway of willows between San Jose and the Santa at Northern Arizona University, reports that the book for publication. an unknown woman writer. Our copy bears intriguing Clara Mission. Delia M. Hills, Whisperings of Time (San published as a result of his Clements Center fellowship, annotations, suggesting it once belonged, if not to the Francisco, 1880) was printed by the Women’s Printing Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and SYLVIA RODRIGUEZ (Fall 2003), Professor of author, to a very astute reader. The publishers, in their Union and is a collection of poetry mostly on religious Anglos in Arizona, was a fi nalist for the 2008 National Anthropology, University of New Mexico, was preface, hope that “in the revolution that the world is and sentimental themes. “Only Golden Curls” is another Council on Public History Book Award. appointed Director of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for now undergoing, the American Occident may ultimately poem on the death of children. “The Emigrants” gives us Intercultural Studies for the coming academic year. be determined as the seat of modern literature.” Perhaps: two different views, male and female, of the westering Drawing on his expertise in the history of the power Her focus will be on program development around but their exemplar writes in Alexandrines. Only two experience. industry, ANDREW NEEDHAM, Assistant Professor of a number of themes of interest to local and regional other copies are known, at the Library of Congress and History at New York University, participated in the communities as well as to scholars across a range of in the Harris Collection at Brown University. Mrs. N. Furlong published Cozenza, a Tale of Italy last Clements Center’s symposium, “Indians and disciplines, which resonates with the award-winning and other Poems (San Francisco, 1880), including also Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American book she worked on while a Clements Center fellow, Lily Elizabeth Graves Hendrix (b. 1868) published “Nonnenwerth, a Legend of the Rhine,” but the shorter Southwest,” and is now also a participant in the spring Acequia: Water-Sharing, Sanctity and Place in Hispanic Fragments: A Book of Poems (Mexico, Mo., 1894), an poems are perhaps her best, such as “The Beer Swill,” 2009 symposium, “Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of New Mexico (SAR Press, 2006). Sylvia contributed a interesting book in several respects. As far as we can prefaced by this remark from the author: Space, Place, and Region in the American South and chapter related to this book, “Honor, Aridity, and Place,” tell, this may be the fi rst (and only?) book of poetry Southwest” (see p. 16). in Expressing New Mexico, ed. Philip B. González, published in Mexico, Missouri. The author was a Paris has her “sans culottes:” Naples has University of Arizona Press, pp. 25-41. graduate of the Missouri School for the Blind, according her “Lazzaroni:” and San Francisco has MONICA PERALES (2006-2007) Assistant Professor of to the title page. Beyond that, we have little biographical her “Beer Swills.” The last cognomen is History, University of Houston wrote that her article, JAMES E. SNEAD (1998-1999), Associate Professor of information. There are some delightful poems herein, not so euphonious as the French or Italian, “Fighting to Stay in Smeltertown: Lead Contamination Anthropology, George Mason University, spent much including “Ungathered Roses,” a fi ne imitation of but it is not less signifi cant of a special and Environmental Justice in a Mexican American of the 2007-2008 year as a Visiting Research Associate Herrick (“Gather your roses while they are fresh / And class. Though not so numerous as those Community,” appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of at the School for Advanced Research on the Human beautiful at the dawning”). of the European cities, we are not behind- the Western Historical Quarterly. (See Raul Ramos’s Condition in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working on a hand in the quality of originality. section below for news of a joint project.) project entitled “The Archaeology of Annihilation.” His Another talented writer is Belle Walker Cooke (1834- new book, Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, 1919). Her Tears and Victory and Other Poems She goes on to describe two comrade specimens of the CYNTHIA RADDING (Spring 2007) accepted an was published by the University of Arizona Press last was published in Salem, Oregon, in 1871. Born in breed, emerging from their straw pallets underneath a appointment to the History Department of the University spring. In early April, James was invited by former Connecticut, Belle Walker Cooke crossed the plains sidewalk in “Tar Flat,” and sauntering arm-in-arm “away of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as the Gussenhoven Clements Center fellow HEATHER TRIGG to give a lecture with her parents in 1852. She was an educator and to the nearest beer kegs that were left outside the night Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies. She at the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at music teacher as well as poet. Her husband, Edwin before.” The frontispiece is a lithograph by Britton & writes that she has joined a strong history department the University of Massachusetts-Boston. After that he Cooke, taught at several colleges and schools, including Rey, after a photograph by Thomas Houseworth & Co. Willamette University. For years she conducted a private Both were leading fi rms in San Francisco at this time.

6 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 11 Perhaps the most well-known woman writer in with much in the allegorical mode, but perhaps her best California is Ina Donna Coolbrith (1842-1928), work is typifi ed by poems in a plain-spoken voice, such emerged from these simultaneous migrations, built on a went national during the era of the Bracero Program a prominent fi gure in the San Francisco literary as “Do Not Call Me Grandma.” system of social and residential segregation, continued from 1942-1964. Originally meant to be an emergency community. She was a friend of Samuel Clemens, Bret migration from Mexico, and seasonal immobilization of contract labor program between the United and Mexico Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, Joaquin Miller, and Augusta Joyce Crocheron was nearly two years old workers. While this system never stopped the mobility during World War II, it morphed into a method by which Ansel Adams, and contributed articles to the infl uential when her convert parents, Caroline and John Joyce, sold of the Mexican and Mexican American populations of growers could replicate the labor market conditions of Overland Monthly. In 1873 Ina became librarian at all they owned and sailed from New York to California South Texas, it did allow the region to continue pay- South Texas, with basic rights of choice, mobility, and the Oakland Free Library and in 1915 she was named with Samuel Brannan’s expedition in 1846. After an ing the lowest wages in the nation even as production citizenship disregarded in favor of cheap and easily the fi rst poet laureate of California. Our copy of the unbearable six-month voyage, the family arrived in and profi ts soared. Agricultural interests in the rest of exploitable foreign labor. Throughout the Twentieth author’s fi rst book, A Perfect Day and Other Poems what is now San Francisco only to fi nd desolate living the country were not long in taking notice, and began Century, in other words, South Texas has not been a pe- (San Francisco, 1881), is inscribed by Coolbrith to Miss conditions in a land at war with Mexico. The 1849 recruiting workers from South Texas by the thousands ripheral, backward region with little importance for the M.E. Hoyt “with the affectionate regards of her old-time gold rush brought prosperity to the area but also the during the Nineteen Twenties after immigration from rest of the nation. Instead, the rest of the nation has fol- pupil. Los Angeles, August 11, 1882.” alcohol that ruined John and, ultimately, the marriage. Europe had slowed down following the passage of lowed in the footsteps of South Texas. John will present Caroline later remarried, and in 1867 the family settled restrictive immigration legislation in 1917, 1921, and his work at a Brown Bag Lecture on April 15, 2009. Mrs. E. P. Thorndyke relied on permanently in Utah. In 1870, Augusta married George 1924. The South Texas model of labor relations then voices from the beyond in Astrea, or W. Crocheron as a plural wife and together they had Goddess of Justice (San Francisco: three sons and two daughters. As a writer she expressed Amanda M. Slocum, book and job herself in both poetry and prose, contributing regularly NEWS FROM CLEMENTS CENTER FELLOWS, 1996 TO PRESENT printer, 1881), a book of poems (and to Mormon journals and winning awards for two of her a few short prose pieces) from a short stories. In 1880 she accepted the advice and aid of JULIANA BARR (1999-2000), was promoted to Associate SHERRY SMITH, to co-edit the volume of essays produced California spiritualist, with a number friends such as Emmeline B. Wells and published her Professor of History at the University of Florida at by the Center’s symposium held last April 2008, of them transmitted to her from the fi rst collection of verse, Wild Flowers of Deseret (Salt Gainesville. Her book, Peace Came in the Form of a “Exploitation and Opportunity: Energy and Indians in spirit world. The “Proem” is in fact Lake, 1881). “The Drunkard’s Wife,” one of the poems, Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands the American Southwest.” The book will be published the work of Mrs. Felicia Hemans— may have some autobiographical relevance. (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), has won by SAR Press. For participants and topics, see http:// dictated from beyond the grave. Our copy is an attractive three awards: the Berkshire Conference of Women smu.edu/swcenter/Energy.htm. book from the press of fellow California spiritualist and Texas women writers are also well Historians book prize for 2007, the Liz Carpenter Award suffragist Amanda Slocum, with an index to the text and represented at the DeGolyer. Mollie from the Texas State Historical Association, and, just ANDREW GRAYBILL (2004-2005) sent news that he several elaborate type ornaments. Evelyn Moore Davis (1852-1909) announced—by an independent jury—The William has been promoted to Associate Professor of History was a prominent author in nineteenth- P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. He and his Utah was also fertile ground for female poets. One of century Texas. In addition to poetry, Southwestern American. (See p. 15 for details on the wife, Jenny, along with daughter, Fiona, welcomed the earliest to publish a book was Sarah E. Carmichael, which she fi rst published in Tyler, award event.) son Gavin Charles Graybill, born on March 4, 2008. whose Poems. A Brief Selection, Published by Texas, newspapers, she also wrote Andrew led the 2007 Clements Center symposium with Permission of the Authoress, for Private Circulation numerous novels, including The Wire FLANNERY BURKE (2002-2003) accepted SMU Associate Professor of History BEN JOHNSON, appeared in San Francisco in 1866. Carmichael’s friends, Cutters (1899), considered by some the a new position as Assistant Professor, on “Bridging National Borders in North America.” who are responsible for publishing this work, marvel fi rst serious “western” novel. Minding Department of History, St. Louis They co-edited the book of essays resulting from that that “in such a secluded spot [Salt Lake City]—shut the Gap and Other Poems (Houston: University. This semester she will be symposium, which is now with Duke University Press. out from the world at large by the frowning barriers of Cushing & Cave, 1867) was her fi rst book. E.H. Cushing teaching the undergraduate survey and a the Rocky Mountains; without the advantages of books published additional volumes of her verse in Houston in graduate U.S. history survey class. The PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN (2001-2002) has been promoted to and intellectual training; without the soul-expanding 1869 and 1872. Davis then turned most of her attention manuscript she worked on as a Clements Associate Professor of History, University of California infl uences of a cultivated and liberal public sentiment; to novels and plays, publishing the majority of her work Center Fellow, From Greenwich Village Santa Barbara, where he was also just named co-director away from the softer elements of natural beauty, and in New York. Her fi nal book of poetry, Selected Poems, to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel of their Center for Borderlands and having nothing but her own heart to commune with— was published in 1927 in New Orleans, where Davis Dodge Luhan’s (University Press of Transcultural Studies. The manuscript her songs have taken so wide and glorious a fl ight; ever spent the last years of her life. It contains an introduction Kansas) was published this spring. One he worked on as a Clements Center loyal to truth and humanity, ever sweet and melodious as and appreciation by writer Grace King. review, “Oddballs in the Desert” by Alexander Theroux, fellow was published in the spring the voice of nature.” was in the 8/1/08 edition of The Wall Street Journal. and quickly received attention. The Amelia V. Purdy (1845-1881) was born in Pittsburgh, Comanche Empire (Yale University The volume includes a number of poems on topical Pennsylvania, in 1845. When she was four, her family BRIAN DELAY (2005-2006), Assistant Press) was selected by the Alternate themes (Lincoln’s funeral, the mines, Ft. Sumter) and moved to Cincinnati; in 1857, the family moved again, Professor of History, University of Selection of History Book Club, the places (California, the Wasatch, Lake Tahoe) as well to Galveston, Texas. She began contributing poems Colorado, Boulder, writes that the Military Book Club, and the Book- as religious and sentimental verse. “The Mines” argues to newspapers in Texas and elsewhere in 1862. In manuscript he worked on while a of-the-Month Club, and has received that the country’s minerals should be used for public 1868, she married Major L. Purdy of Bryan, Texas. He Clements Center fellow, War of a numerous high profi le reviews, including good, particularly for the abolition of slavery, not private died of tuberculosis in 1875, leaving her in straitened Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the one by Larry McMurtry in the New wealth. “Amputated” is striking for its subject matter, if circumstances and poor health. However, she continued U.S.-Mexican War, is now available from York Review of Books. Peninsula Press of England not for its treatment. to write and oversaw the publication of First Fruit Yale University Press. bought the world rights to publish the Spanish-language (Pittsburgh, Pa., 1875), her only book. She remarried version, which will appear in the fall of 2009. Beyond Mary Jane Mount Tanner (1837-1890) and her family a Dr. Jones of Waxahachie and was living in Ennis, BRIAN FREHNER (2004-2005), Assistant this exciting book news, JIM WATSON, who is a member were early converts to the Mormon Church who Texas, at the time of her death (also of consumption) Professor of History, Oklahoma State of the Clements Center’s Advisory Panel, shared a participated in the 1847 exodus to Utah. Her A Book in 1881. Purdy is a poet worth a closer look, especially University, is working with Clement personal connection to Pekka’s work. Jim grew up of Fugitive Poems was published in Salt Lake in 1880. her discordant “Filial Piety,” which strays from the Center’s Associate Director and professor of history, in the heart of the Comanchería in the Brazos River Religious themes tend to predominate in Tanner’s work, conventional.

12 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 5 Also worth the reader’s attention is Driftwood, by Mrs. from Leading Writers and Prominent Dissertation Fellow JOSÉ GABRIEL MARTÍNEZ SERNA, Borderlands, 1763-1825,” which he plans to complete Lou Singletary-Bedford, and Driftings, by Mrs. May Characters of Texas, being a Texas “Institutionalizing the Jesuit Frontier: Seminaries, in this fellowship year. This manuscript offers a new Bedford-Eagan, published together in Dallas in 1893. Contribution to the World’s Industrial Colleges, and Missions of the Society of Jesus in perspective on the history of imperial and national Born in Kentucky, Lou Singletary married John Joseph Exposition at New Orleans, La., 1884- Northern New Spain, 1594-1767”; DAVID REX GALINDO rivalries in North America. His premise is to examine Bedford in 1857. Their daughter, May, was born a year 5 (New Orleans: J.S. Rivers, 1885), (SMU doctoral student), “The Important Business of two major tendencies—adventurism and intrigue— later, in Llano County, Texas. By 1878, the family was containing not only verse by numerous Their Salvation: Franciscan Missions among Christians toward understanding British and U.S. expansion living in Milton, Florida, where Lou Bedford and her Texas writers, but some extraordinary in 18th-Century New Spain,” and ANDREA CAMPETELLA aimed at Spanish colonial frontiers of the Mississippi husband edited and published the local newspaper. Her color lithographs of scenes at the New (Rutgers University), “‘Missions in the Desert’: Indians, Valley, the Gulf Coast region, and Texas. His book is fi rst book, A Vision and Other Poems, was published in Orleans Industrial Exposition. The state, Jesuits, and Spaniards in the Pampas of Buenos Aires, ambitious in scope. It extends from the end of the Seven Cincinnati and London in 1881. May Bedford married it appears, was promoting its literary 1739-1752.” The commentator was former Clements Years War, through the emergence of the United States John Eagan in 1882. Tragically, May Bedford Eagan as well as its industrial and agricultural Center Fellow CYNTHIA RADDING (University of New as an imperial republic, to the crisis of the Spanish died in Florida in August, 1883. Lou Bedford’s Gathered productions. Mexico, now at the University of North Carolina). empire and the aftermath of Mexican independence in Leaves was published in Dallas in 1883, and by 1884 1821. David’s fi rst book, Inheritance and Family Life she was living in the city, where she apparently wrote In addition to individual volumes and anthologies, MIGUEL ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZ QUIROGA will in Colonial New York City, won the 1992 Hendricks for various newspapers. The present volume contains DeGolyer also has numerous periodicals associated with join the Clements Center as a fellow in Award for the best manuscript on the Dutch colonial sketches and poems by mother and daughter. women. One of the best is The Hesperian, edited by the spring semester. He is a Professor experience in North America. More recently, he Mrs. F. H. Day (San Francisco, March 1859-April 1863). of History at the Universidad Autónoma achieved recognition in the fi eld of Southwestern Martha Elizabeth Hotchkiss Whitten (b. 1842) was a According to James D. Hart, the Hesperian was “a de Nuevo León in Monterrey, Mexico. and borderlands history. His article, “José Bernardo prolifi c if not always successful Texas poet. Appearing journal of literature and art for women,” initially semi- Miguel received his B.A. in history Gutiérrez de Lara: Caudillo of the Mexican Republic in in Author’s Edition of Texas Garlands (Austin, 1887) monthly, and later monthly. It aimed to bring culture from the University of Houston and his Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2002), won is her “Beautiful in Death. In Memory of Miss Bettie to ladies by discussing literary classics, by providing M.A. in Latin American history from the the 2003 Bolton-Kinnaird Award of the Western History Costley and Miss Griffi th, who were drowned in the information about niceties of housekeeping, and through Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Association for best article of the year in Spanish Colorado River while bathing, May, 1867,” a poem that the printing of colored fashion plates, its main attraction. Mexico. He has co-authored two books Borderlands history. In 2009, the Western Historical compares favorably with Emmeline Grangerford’s “Ode Contributors included ‘Caxton’ (W.H. Rhodes), J.S. and co-edited two others on the border Quarterly will publish Narrett’s article, “Liberation to Stephen Dowling Bots” in Mark Twain’s Adventures Hittell, Frank Soule, and “Yellow Bird’ (John Rollin region. His latest effort has been as co-editor, with and Conquest: John Hamilton Robinson and U.S. of Huckleberry Finn. Also in the graveyard school is Ridge).” Mrs. Day, founder and editor, employed such SMU Ph.D. student TIMOTHY BOWMAN, of a new edition Adventurism toward Mexico, 1806-1819.” In October, Mollie Spencer, author of Mollie Spencer’s Poems artists as the Nahl brothers and A. J. Grayson, often of Melinda Rankin’s Twenty Years Among the Mexicans: David will present a paper, “British Imperial Visions: (Sherman, Tex., 1897), the fi rst book of poetry printed referred to as the Audubon of the West. Of Mrs. Day, Narrative of Missionary Labor, which will be published West Florida and Spanish Louisiana” at the Southern in Sherman, Texas. About the author, little is known at we know but little, though from her forum, “Editor’s this fall in the Library of Texas Series, a collaborative Conference of British Studies. The commentator is present. Judging from the contents of this volume, she Table,” she seems to have had a keen mind, lively wit, project of the Clements Center and DeGolyer Library. Eligah Gould, a major scholar in the fi eld. David will tended to specialize in obituary verse, memorializing and interest in furthering women’s rights. In addition to During his residence, Miguel will be completing his give a Brown Bag lecture on his work over 40 individuals, “In Memory of Miss Jennie Peire,” the patterns and costumes were editorial stands against manuscript on “Confl ict and Commonality in the next spring, on February 18, 2009. “In Memory of Grandpa Carson,” “In Memory of capital punishment and slavery. Texas-Mexico Border Region, 1830-1880.” This study Willie,” “In Memory of G. Ackerson,” etc., etc. focuses on a particularly violent period before and after JOHN W. WEBER III is this year’s recipient Half a continent away was The Hallequah (Grand the establishment of the border, a period characterized of the Summerlee Fellowship in Texas Gift books and anthologies were especially important in River, Indian Territory: Hallaquah Society, Wyandotte by fi libustering, cattle rustling, Indian depredations, History. He received his Ph.D. from the gathering poems that were fi rst published in newspapers Mission, 1880). This ephemeral periodical was edited invasions and wars. However, in spite of the violence, College of William and Mary in 2008 and periodicals. Samuel Dixon’s, The Poets and Poetry by three women, Ida Johnson, Lula Walker, and Arizona people of the border region, both Anglos and Mexicans, where he specialized in U.S. History, La- of Texas. Biographical Sketches of the Poets of Texas, Jackson, all Quaker missionaries. They set their own developed a commonality of interests which led to bor History, and Modern Latin American with Selections from Their Writings, Containing Reviews type, sent to them courtesy of Susan Longstreth, a various forms of cooperation in areas such as commerce, History. He will spend his fellowship both Personal and Critical (Austin, 1885) is invaluable Friend in Philadelphia, and published this little journal labor and religion. Most of these relations and year completing his manuscript for pub- as a source of biographical and bibliographical with news of the school (a literary society met once a interactions, which tended to unite people, were driven lication: “The Shadow of the Revolution: information on scores of nineteenth-century poets, week) and contributions from students, many of them by market forces. An alternative history of the border South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, male and female. According to the preface, written Native American children. In vol. 1, no. 4-5 (March & region begins to emerge when the actions of merchants, and the Evolution of Modern American in 1878 by William Carey Crane, professor at Baylor April 1880) is a poem “composed for and read at the migrant laborers and missionaries become the object of Labor Relations.” His work examines the creation and University, “Texas is the land of poetry. The Milton, or funeral of Nancy Johnson,” a student at the school who study. Miguel will give a Brown Bag Lecture about his evolution of the agricultural economy and labor relations Tennyson, or Bryant, or Longfellow, or Poe, may not had died at age 15. According to the obituary, Nancy had work on January 28, 2009. of South Texas from the late 19th century to the 1960s. yet have appeared, but poetry is embedded in the great recited poetry at a meeting of the literary society only The changing demographic reality of Mexico, with mas- heart of the people; it is taught in paradisic landscapes, two weeks before her death. DeGolyer’s copy is the only DAVID E. NARRETT received his Ph.D. sive population shifts northward during the last quarter in the mountain heights, in purling streams of diamond one known. at Cornell University in 1981. He is of the Nineteenth Century, caused massive emigration purity, in dashing rivers springing from rocky beds, in Associate Professor of History at the to the United States once the violence of the Mexican the balmy fragrance of ten thousand fl owers, in the wild As this small sampling indicates, women University of Texas at Arlington, where Revolution erupted after 1910. Hundreds of thousands revellings of myriad vines, in the somber density of poets are well represented at DeGolyer he began teaching in 1984. David’s fl ed north of the border, most of them traveling to South wild tanglewoods, in the forest of live oaks and water Library, from St. Louis to San Francisco, research, which has a broad geographic Texas. This migration wave out of Mexico met another oaks, of pine and cypress, and in all the luxuriances and from Oregon to New Orleans, from and chronological range, is the basis group of migrants traveling from the Southeast and Mid- abundance of semi-tropical and super-oriental clime.” epics to epigrams. For anyone interested of his book manuscript, “Frontiers of west who sought to purchase farm land in South Texas Perhaps we should allow for poetic license! in literary and social history, their work Adventurism and Intrigue: The West as the region underwent a transition from ranching to deserves further study. Ellen Atherton, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas-Mexican agriculture. A new regime of labor and racial relations Also essential is Ella Hutchens Sydnor, Gems from a Walls of Corn (Hiawatha, Kansas, 1894) Texas Quarry: or, Literary Offerings by and Selections is one of many, ripe for the harvest.

4 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 13 TRAVEL RESEARCH GRANTS TO USE DEGOLYER COLLECTIONS INTRODUCING THE 2008-2009 BILL AND RITA CLEMENTS RESEARCH FELLOWS Throughout the year the Clements Center teams up with DeGolyer Library to offer travel research grants FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHWESTERN AMERICA AND to scholars from beyond the north Texas area who are working on any aspect of the Southwestern and borderlands THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION FELLOW IN TEXAS HISTORY experience. These $600 a week grants are awarded for one to four weeks to help to defray costs of travel, lodging, and research materials. In addition to our usual grants, we are pleased that the James Butler Bonham Chapter of Research fellowships are at the core of the Clements prison system placed in charge also ran an internal the Daughters of the Texas Republic, through the Clements Center, offers an annual research grant of $500 for a Center mission. Each one-year fellow receives a prison economy in which money, food, human beings, scholar whose work at the DeGolyer Library will advance our understanding of the history of Texas. This summer $39,000 stipend, a $3,000 research fund, and, for those reputations, favors, and sex all became commodities Marion Castleberry, Professor and Director of Graduate Theater Studies, Baylor University, received a Clements- with a completed manuscript, a workshop in which to be bought and sold. In his manuscript, based on DeGolyer and a Bonham Chapter grant to work in the Horton Foote Collection on a biography of this famous Texas two top scholars in the subject fi eld spend an afternoon newly released court records and oral histories that author and playwright. In the spring, Mark Finlay, Professor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University, with the fellow and several SMU and local scholars Rob conducted with prisoners, prison administrators, received a Clements-DeGolyer grant to focus on materials from the International Rubber Company in Mexico for and graduate students to engage in a deep critique of litigators, and legislators, his work will show how his book, Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security. In March, George W. the manuscript. “It’s a dream come true,” said a recent the Texas prison system managed to maintain its high Cox, Emeritus Professor of Biology, San Diego State University, used his grant to research the years of the Mexican fellow. The one-year or one-semester fellowships external reputation for so long in the face of the internal Revolution in the borderlands to contextualize a collection of letters written by William B. Cox, who had various are open to junior or senior scholars in any fi eld of the reality and how that reputation collapsed when inmates, business interests there at that time. humanities or social sciences working on the American inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, revolted. Rob Southwest or the U.S.-Mexico borderlands who want will present a public Brown Bag lecture on March 18, NEW! The New Ruth P. Morgan Fellowships: To encourage and support the use of the resources time to bring book-length manuscripts to completion. 2009. of the Archives of Women of the Southwest and the DeGolyer Library, Dr. Ruth P. Morgan, provost For 2009-2010 fellowships, the application deadline is emerita at SMU, has created an endowment which will provide support for advanced scholars who January 20, 2009 (http://smu.edu/swcenter/announce. RAPHAEL B. FOLSOM, is an are working on projects related to women in the Southwest and to women in politics. The grants shall htm). assistant professor of history at be known as the Ruth P. Morgan Fellowships and will be awarded by the DeGolyer Library and the the University of Oklahoma. He Clements Center for Southwest Studies. The fi rst Morgan Fellowships will be offered in 2008-2009. To ROBERT T. CHASE, received his Ph.D. received his Ph.D. from Yale in apply, please visit http://smu.edu/swcenter/clemdeg.htm. from the University of Maryland, the winter of 2007. This year he College Park. His primary area of will be completing his manuscript, specialization is in social movements, “This Weeping Land: The Making, racial politics, and political culture. As Destruction, and Rebirth of the a Clements Center Fellow, he will be Yaqui Mission Towns, 1533- FALL 2008 EVENTS CALENDAR completing his manuscript on “Civil 1810.” Raphael is exploring Rights on the Cellblock: Race, Reform the complex relationship between Yaqui Indians and obscures the long and complicated history of Yaqui Fr. Ignacio Tirsch, S.J., A and Punishment in Texas Prisons and invading Spanish imperial forces in colonial Mexico. In California Indian woman carrying collaboration with the Spanish empire. the Nation, 1945-1990.” His project the face of Spanish conquest, his monograph examines green seed pulp, and a California begins in 1948 when Texas embarked how Yaquis managed to establish a sphere of cultural majordomo like those who came Yaqui ties with the Spanish Empire were deep, complex, from Spain. Codex Pictoreus on the nation’s most ambitious reform program to autonomy in the colonial northwest via a mix of Mexicanus (Tirsch Codex) Catalog contentious, and creative. This talk will discuss the replace its notorious plantation/prison farm system with political shrewdness and violence. The Yaqui Indians No. 0033R. National Library of the establishment of these ties, their development in the Czech Republic. an effi cient, business-oriented agricultural enterprise of Sonora have long been known for the ferocity of mid-colonial period, and their violent transformation system. When this new system was fully operational their struggle with the Mexican State in the late 19th under Bourbon rule. Drawing on chronicle histories, in the 1960s, Texas garnered plaudits as a pioneering, and early 20th centuries, as successive governments Jesuit letters, demographic data and newly discovered modern, effi cient, and business oriented Sun Belt state. tried to destroy them and take their land. From this WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 documents written by the Yaquis, Raphael will discuss The result was an agri-business operation that was so struggle emerged a persistent myth of Yaqui fi erceness, the development of this project and possible avenues of successful that state leaders and penologists could claim separateness, and cultural independence. There is a Clements Center Brown Bag Lecture further research and argumentation. 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. that they had successfully modernized the South and kernel of truth to this mythology, but it obscures the Texana Room, DeGolyer Library WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 vanquished the ghosts of their past. Gone were the long and complicated history of Yaqui collaboration prison’s public images of slavery, convict leasing, the with the Spanish empire. Yaqui ties with the Spanish 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. Clements Center Brown Bag Lecture lash and bat, “sexual perversions,” and degradation. empire were deep, complex, contentious, and creative. 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. Rather than accept the albatross of their slave heritage Raphael will give a Brown Bag lecture on his research This Weeping Land: The Making, Destruction, and Texana Room, DeGolyer Library and a prison system that served as a living symbol on September 17th (see page 15 for details). Rebirth of the Yaqui Mission Towns, 1533-1810 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. of southern “backwardness,” Texans created instead a prison where such “bottom line” and business-like At the April meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference The Risky Business of Editing: RAPHAEL FOLSOM, Clements Center Fellow for the results as production, cost effi ciency, and external on Latin American Studies, Raphael was on a panel Letters from the U.S.-Mexico Study of Southwestern America 2008-09 images of order allowed the state to stake a claim to organized by SMU Professor of History PETER Boundary Survey, 1849-1854 modernity. But this reputation of competence and BAKEWELL, “New Scholarship on Jesuit and Franciscan The Yaqui Indians of Sonora have long been known effi ciency obfuscated the reality of a brutal system of Missions in Colonial Latin America.” Raphael’s paper for the ferocity of their struggle with the Mexican state Sketch and writing from George Clinton internal prison management in which inmates acted as was: “‘They Never Lay Down Their Arms—Not Even in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as successive Gardner’s personal letters courtesy of the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist guards, employing coercive means to maintain control at Mass’: Yaqui Perspectives on the Insurrection of governments tried to destroy them and take their land. University, Dallas, Texas. over the prisoner population. The inmates whom the 1740.” Other panelists included: Clements Center From this struggle emerged a persistent myth of Yaqui fi erceness, separateness, and cultural independence. DAVID J. WEBER, Dedman Professor of History and There is a kernel of truth to this mythology, but it Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU.

14 / CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / 214.768.3684 CLEMENTS CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST STUDIES / www.smu.edu/swcenter / 3 party has chosen to wear…[A] transformation the ways we bring our audiences perspective and began from conservative Democratic domination to understanding of the Southwest. Please join us if you conservative Republican domination of the state.” The can! ~ Sherry L. Smith, Associate Director David Weber spent the 2007-08 academic year as the objects found in well-to-do colonial future? Only one thing is clear – political shifts and Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Senior Fellow at homes arrived from throughout the transformations are inevitable and as Bridges put it, it is Yale, where he completed work on a book to be called: Spanish Empire. Unlike the colorless “[t]he voters [who] will ultimately determine the future For more information on Governor Clements’s career “Fiasco: George Clinton Gardner’s Correspondence environments found in Hollywood fi lms, course of politics in the Lone Star State.” and the 1978 Texas Governor’s race see Carolyn Barta’s from the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey, 1849-1854.” colonial buildings were alive with bright The confl uence between past and present in Bill Clements: Texian to his Toenails (Austin: Eakin The book contains 175 letters that he and his co-editor, colors, rich textures, and an array of politics, as refl ected in the current election and the Press, 1996) and Kenneth Bridges’ Twilight of the Texas Jane Lenz Elder, have introduced and annotated. interesting items. historical scholarship the Clements Center supports Democrats: The 1978 Governor’s Race (College Station: His talk will explain the signifi cance of Gardner’s through symposiums and fellowships, is just one of Texas A & M Press, 2008). correspondence and explain why editing is a risky DR. KELLY DONAHUE-WALLACE business for historians in the academy. is chair of the Department of Art

Education and Art History in the A Spaniard and his College of Visual Arts and Design Mexican Indian Wife and AWARDS & RECOGNITION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 at the University of North Texas. She their Child, from a series on mixed race marriages William P. Clements Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book received her Ph.D. in art history from the in Mexico (oil on canvas) The Clements Center welcomes CORDELIA CHÁVEZ Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American University of New Mexico in 2000. Dr. by Miguel Cabrera on Southwestern America: (1695-1768) © Museo de CANDELARIA as SMU’s new Dean of Dedman College of Southwest,” completed and submitted the manuscript Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Donahue-Wallace teaches undergraduate America, Madrid, Spain/ Humanities and Sciences. Previously she was at Arizona based on participants’ essays to SAR Press at the School Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by and graduate courses in Latin American The Bridgeman Art State University serving as the Regents Professor in for Advanced Research on the Human Experience, Santa art, the history of prints, and European Library. early modern art. Her research addresses the Department of English and the Department of Fe, NM. JULIANA BARR, Assistant Professor Transborder Chicano/o and Latina/o Studies. At ASU of History, University of Florida, the history of prints in eighteenth-century Mexico City she also was the founding associate dean of the Offi ce The Clements Center welcomes BENJAMIN H. JOHNSON Gainesville. and the function of prints in the colonial context. of Strategic Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts and as Associate Director of the Clements Center. Ben is an st Sciences. Dean Candelaria joined SMU on July 1 . Associate Professor of History and a specialist in both “Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 borderlands and environmental history. He collaborated which Indians were the dominant power Lecture & Book Signing DAVID WEBER, Clements Center Director and Dedman with photographer Jeffrey Gusky on Bordertown:The and Europeans were the ones forced to “Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the Professor of History, received the Lon Tinkle Award Odyssey of An American Place (2008) and is the author accommodate, resist, and persevere. She American West” from the Texas Institute of Letters in April. The award of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and demonstrates that between the 1690s recognizes excellence sustained throughout a career. Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans and 1780s, Indian peoples, including the DEANNE STILLMAN, author and journalist The Texas Institute of Letters was founded in 1936 (2003). Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, 6:00 p.m. Reception to stimulate interest in Texas letters and to recognize Wichitas, and Comanches, formed relationships with 6:30 p.m. Lecture & Book Signing distinctive literary achievement. This fall David is back Ben organized the 2006-7 Clements Center Symposium, Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of Stanley Marcus Reading Room, DeGolyer Library at SMU teaching and leading the Clements Center after “Bridging National Borders in North America,” with imperial control.” 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. a year’s sabbatical at Yale University’s Lamar Center former Clements Center Fellow Andrew Graybill, which for the Study of Frontiers and Borders where he was resulted in a volume of essays to be published by Duke McCord Auditorium, 3rd Floor Dallas Hall, There is no charge, but please make a reservation by in residence as a Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke University Press. And, along with former Clements 3225 University Boulevard, SMU calling 214-768-3684 or access online reservation, Senior Fellow. Publication news: Yale University Press Center Fellow Pekka Hämäläinen, Ben is in the 6:00 p.m. Reception parking information and directions at http://smu.edu/ will publish his Spanish Frontier in North America: The process of editing Major Problems in North American 6:30 p.m. Award Ceremony, lecture and book signing swcenter/Mustang.htm Brief Edition in January 2009. See the Events Calendar Borderlands History. A native of Houston, Ben received for his Brown Bag on Oct. 15. his B.A. from Carleton College and his Ph.D. from There is no charge, but please make a reservation by When Deanne Stillman learned that

Yale University. He arrived at SMU in the fall of 2002, calling 214-768-3684 or access online reservation, thirty-four wild horses had been gunned The Clements Center is proud to report that Professor of after a postdoc at Caltech and teaching for a year at the parking information and directions at http://smu.edu/ down outside Reno at Christmas time in History SHERRY SMITH, who is also Associate Director University of Texas at San Antonio. Ben has received swcenter/Barr.htm 1998, she felt compelled to know more. of the Clements Center, will be inducted as President fellowships from the Beinecke Library, the Mellon In her new book, Ms. Stillman spans the of the Western History Association for 2009-2010 at Foundation, the Marshall Foundation, the American WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 centuries of the presence of mustangs in the national meeting in Salt Lake City in October. In Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library, North America, from the ways they had the spring Sherry was one of three professors given Clements Center Brown Bag Lecture and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He been used over time by conquistadors, the title of “University Distinguished Professor,” an 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. is currently at work on a history of the Progressive-Era indigenous peoples, cattle drivers and award created in 1982 by SMU’s Board of Trustees Texana Room, DeGolyer Library environmental politics for Yale University Press. settlers until the time they were no longer to honor outstanding faculty members who meet the 6404 Hilltop Lane & McFarlin Blvd. needed. Government laws offered some highest standards of academic achievement. University Congratulations to JOHN CHÁVEZ, professor of Mexican protection, but then those ended. Her talk Distinguished Professors are appointed in perpetuity and A caballo entre dos mundos: Material Culture in American and U.S. Southwest history and member of includes pictures, an account of the Battle of the Little receive cash awards. In addition to teaching and serving Spanish Colonial Texas the Center’s Executive Board. Cambridge University Bighorn and its famous equine survivor, and, on this ten- as the Graduate Student adviser, Sherry helps to lead the Press accepted his manuscript, “Beyond Empires: year anniversary of the Reno massacre, an introduction Clements Center, and is responsible for overseeing the This lecture employs wills, inventories, and other Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World,” and to Bugz, the silent witness who survived the Reno Center’s symposium series. This summer she and Brian documents to examine the material culture of Spanish will publish the book simultaneously in hardback and massacre. Frehner (Oklahoma State University), co-organizers paperback for immediate classroom use. colonial Texas. From red silk bedclothes to painted and co-editors of last spring’s symposium, “Indians & screens bearing images of gallivanting lovers, the

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SUNBELT RISING: THE POLITICS OF SPACE, PLACE, AND REGION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009 AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY www.smu.edu/swcenter The Sunbelt, a region born of recent history, has been steadily drawing Americans from older cities to Editor: Andrea Boardman, Assistant Editor: Ruth Ann Elmore burgeoning metropolitan centers across the southwest since World War II. Warmer temperatures and air conditioning only begin to tell the story. This conference will explore the political, economic, and social transformations that have been making the Sunbelt into a unifi ed region rivaling traditional centers of Volume 10, No. 1 N E W S L E T T E R Fall 2008 power in the East. From the Associate Director: Clements, benefactor of the Clements Center, played an important part. He won the Governorship in 1978, the fi rst Republican Historians Michelle Nickerson, University of Texas at Dallas, and Darren Dochuk, Purdue University, This fall, much of the to win that offi ce in Texas since Reconstruction. As one of the have gathered an interdisciplinary group of scholars with topics that promise to deepen, complicate and nation’s attention will focus on Governor’s friends later put it, “He was the right candidate to be broaden how we understand the Sunbelt. the U.S. Presidential election. on the cutting edge of history. It was going to happen sooner or Several aspects of the contest later; this [Republican ascendancy] was happening all over the Please see the Clements Center’s Web site for details and updates: http://smu.edu/swcenter/ strike observers as particularly South.” During the campaign, Bill and his wife Rita seemed to SunbeltRising.htm noteworthy, including a fi rst- time understand these changes and worked hard to capitalize on them. African American candidate They visited more than 200 rural counties. They appointed county running under the banner of a campaign chairmen in 244 of 254 counties – dozens of which major political party. American had not had enough Republicans to even hold a primary during voters will also decide whether the the preceding spring. Governor Clements’ television campaign Republican bloc, that Republican emphasized he was a man of the people who pulled himself up strategist Kevin Phillips once by his bootstraps and a candidate who knew energy – one of the described as a new hegemony in major issues of the day. Clements was, after all, an oil man. He The Clements Center’s newsletter is published semi-annually at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters. For an electronic national politics, will hold. Should Barack Obama win, pundits also was a person who knew his way around Washington, D.C., version of this newsletter or for more information about the Clements Center’s grants, fellowships, publications and programs, might very well mark the 2008 election as one denoting a sea having served as manager of the Department of the Defense please visit our Web site at http://smu.edu/swcenter/index.asp or contact us at (214) 768-3684 or [email protected]. change in American politics. It will, of course, not be the fi rst. during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. He also received Throughout American history, one can identify particular help from nationally-known Republicans. Former President Ford Southern Methodist University elections which reveal, and symbolize, signifi cant changes in the and former California Governor Ronald Reagan campaigned for William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies political landscape. This year’s Clements Center symposium, Clements in Houston and Dallas. And the Clements campaign Dallas Hall, Room 356 3225 University Ave. “Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region in the understood the growing importance of a Christian voting bloc in PO Box 750176 American South and Southwest” examines the shift which, about the days before the “Moral Majority” emerged in the 1980s. Dallas, TX 75275-0176 forty years ago, united conservatives in the South and Southwest. On election day the Clements’ supporters worked the This, in turn, led to the Republican Party ascendancy over the phones, reaching 20% of all voters. One third of the voters made Democrats, particularly in the newly coined “Sunbelt” region. up their minds during the last week and 15 percent not until (For more information on this event see p.16.) election day, so this last minute effort was particularly important. Texas, of course, had a role in this story and Governor Bill So close was Clements’ contest with Democratic candidate John Hill, that Bill and Rita went to sleep that night, uncertain of the outcome. Although the next day’s Amarillo Globe-News CONTENTS: mistakenly published a headline declaring Hill the victor, a 2 Awards & Recognition recount revealed that Clements won the race by a margin of 16,909 votes out of 2.2 million cast. “My election marks a new 3 Introducing the 2008-09 Clements Center Fellows day for Texas,” Clements said at the time, “We literally have 5 News from Past Fellows turned a page in history, and the political scene will never be the 7 Bill Clements Dissertation Fellowship & Ph.D. Updates same.” 9 Publication News Historian Kenneth Bridges agrees that this 1978 election 10 DeGolyer Library: “Emily’s Sisters” “saw the twilight of the age of unquestioned Democratic superiority” in Texas. Republicans demonstrated they could win 14 Clements Center–DeGolyer Travel Research Grants statewide elections and attract Democrats who wanted a more 14 Fall Events Calendar conservative organization. On the other hand, Bridge argues 16 Spring Symposium: “Sunbelt Rising: The Politics that Texas politics changed very little. By the early twenty-fi rst of Space, Place, and Region in the American South and century, Texas was still a state dominated by one political party. Southwest” The difference was simply in “which party label that conservative

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